Does Al Sharpton support a flat tax?

[_Jumper_]

On Crossfire Begala said he does. Is this true? If so, what is the flat tax rate he's proposing?

[Fixated]

1. ...

(Googles it)

Yes, he apparently does.
"Secondly, I'm working on now—and will release in March—a progressive flat tax proposal where we really deal with taxes from a level of protecting working-class America, not just lower-class America, and not continue these escalating tax cuts for the wealthy."

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0309/davis.php

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Jerry Brown

supported a flat tax in 96 and Clinton fileted him.

[Trajan]

3. How does one have a 'progressive' flat tax ? ......

Isnt that term oxymoronic ? ....

The Flat Tax HURTS middle class families, who pay LESS in the current progressive, graduated tax formula .....

"The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state ....{As Henry Home (Lord Kames) has written, a goal of taxation should be to} 'remedy inequality of riches as much as possible, by relieving the poor and burdening the rich.'"
-- Adam Smith, Wealth Of Nations

[jagguy]

4. you got it... and people think this guy is actually an option

it kills me