>Well, unless you consider it fair that the rich should pay the same rate as the middle class and everyone else. You can spin it any way you like but a flat tax system boils down to "the rich pay less and everyone else pays more."
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>No. It boils down to "everyone pays the same percentage of their income." The rich still pay more because 10% of $1,000,000 is a lot more money than 10% of $100,000.
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Sorry for not dotting the I's and crossing the T's. I meant changing to a flax tax system would boil down to the rich paying less than they pay now and everyone else paying less than they pay now.