Reply #72: totally unfair to those at the low end of the totem

[Carolina]

pole, like a flat tax.

It should be progressive cuts and taxation with those who benefit (i.e. make) the most, paying the most. 5% hurts the private sector employee making 25K much more than the one making 100K!

Plus the federal and state budgets would not be crunched if we CUT the real budget busters: senseless, futile, ongoing wars and imperialism, the killer of all previous great powers! No one in power wants to address that.