2006-09-03 17:32:10 · 6 answers · asked by ding_bats_papa 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I would definitely be for a flat rate tax. It'll never happen because the rich can pay people to vote so that they can continue to get tax breaks.
2006-09-03 17:40:35 · answer #1 · answered by q_midori 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am against it!
It hurts the poor, and allows the rich off of the hook! They always find ways around paying taxes! That is why they employ so many tax lawyers and CPA's!
I don't know a poor person who has an attorney or a CPA!! They usually file the short form , getting screwed more!
Additionally, if it did work, and that is a big IF, 10% of 12 Million still leaves the millionaire 10.8 million! Some average Taxpayer making $44,000 a year gets $39,600, almost all of the average taxpayers money is going to go for housing, food, clothing, electricity and transportation!
Hardly any of the millionaires $10.8 Million is going to go for any of those things! They are going to invest in Banks, like Bush, who charge the poor 30% interest on a credit card that you can never pay off!
2006-09-04 00:48:01 · answer #2 · answered by cantcu 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm all for flat rate and so is the 14th amendment to the constitution.
It is clear that the authors of the 14th had a flat rate in mind.
Not a system that pays a $ 700million return to a Corporation that reports a $ 4 billion profit. Watchovia Bank
2006-09-04 00:41:12 · answer #3 · answered by 43 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Against it. It would shift a greater proportion of taxes down from the high incomes (especially the mega-high incomes) to the lower ones. I don't know WHY people think that they would pay less with this plan.
We have a mix of progressive (income) and regressive (social security, sales) taxes now - although the progressiveness of the income tax has been reduced over and over and over again.
Our political system is too heavily influenced by big money.
2006-09-04 00:55:36 · answer #4 · answered by oohhbother 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Libertarians and Green party advocate this
2006-09-04 00:34:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would just love it!
Don't know why, maybe IRS agents & accountants lobbied to shut it down?
2006-09-04 00:42:33 · answer #6 · answered by robyn o 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋