Should the income tax rate be the same for everybody?

Question

That way, anyone who raises taxes rtaises them on everyone, and the slovenly and illiterate poor can't gang up on society's achievers.

Why can't we do it that way?

Answer 1

I think the answer is the flat tax, or usage tax.  You are only taxed for products you buy or things you use.  That is the most fair tax available that is still feasible.

Answer 2

Because it would ruin the dems tax plan. Being fair is not part of their agenda. I'm amazed that people don't see through the c**p they harp on about tax breaks. Sure tax breaks are fine and dandy but when they let the Bush tax cuts expire all our taxes will go up. Why don't they tell the people that?

Answer 3

The reason is simple, the rich don't want to. Take an example: if the tax rate was 20%, using this as an abstract rate. And everyone rich and poor had to pay 20% tax rate, then you would pay a flat rate of 20% and so would every rich person in the country. If you made 30,000 you'd pay 6,000 in taxes, that sounds like a lot but so would someone who earns millions, so someone who earns 100,000,000 as a chairman of a corporation would pay 20,000,000 in taxes. We could stop the rich from paying less than the average worker in the US. It is obscene when someone who earns millions pays less in taxes than someone who earns 50,000. In the beginning of the century the mega rich didn't pay income tax on inheritance. Now they have trust, foundations which exempts them from mega tax so when someone is filthy rich and dies they only pay a tiny portion on what they actually left. It sure as h**l isn't the 11 to 21% the average person pays in taxes. here's a fact< 3% of the population control 97% of this countrys wealth. It works the same in business, there are a lot more small busineses than mega corporations, that's why the big companies get preferred treatment and taxes.

Answer 4

yes we should. Everyone should pay the same rate. We should not penalize people for being successful/wealthy.  

Answer 5

The rich are the ones who get all the breaks and loopholes.  People who make millions of dollars a year pay no more in taxes than those who make $100,000.  This is a matter of record. Reagan said that his tax reform was going to flatten rates but also do away with loopholes.  He did flatten the rates, and eliminated -some- loopholes, but new loopholes have come back ever since.

Conservatives like to say you can't tax a nation into prosperity, but the best times we've had in this country were times of progressive taxation.  People who make more get more services from the government, why should the rest of us pay for that?  Why should you and I, working for a living, pay more so some guy who lives on his investments should be able to pay almost nothing?

It isn't the poor and slovenly and illiterate who are ripping us off, it's the rich and powerful.  They've sure got you fooled.