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The New DU. Reply #370: A flat tax would do away with the middle class in about two seconds
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Fri Jan-28-05 10:57 AM
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| 370. A flat tax would do away with the middle class in about two seconds |
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Because a much higher percentage of lower-income households' income goes to essentials (food, clothing, shelter) they are penalized unfairly. And there is no arbitrary threshhold which doesn't penalize those near it more harshly than those far above it.
Accepting a flat tax as "fair" would have to also accept the faulty notion that the ratio of people's expndable income (fun money) to their income is linear.
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