If you make $10,000 per year and spend $9,800 of that on essentials (food, clothing, shelter, gasoline) and pay 15% tax, you’ve paid $1,470 in taxes. If you make $500,000 per year and spend $9,800 on essentials, you’ve also spent $1,470 in taxes. The first family has $200 left for discretionary income, while the second family has $490,200 left for discretionary income. If you think that the second family would use that discretionary income to alleviate the plight of the poor, think again. The social Darwinist propaganda of the last 30 years (survival of the fittest – if you are poor, it is your own fault) needs to come to a screeching halt. If it continues much longer, I predict blood in the streets, in the form of armed rebellion. Those who live in gated communities will have to hire their own armies to beat back the advancing hordes intent on re-distributing the wealth by force.

The Fair Tax plays right into the hands of the financial elite and does nothing at all to alleviate poverty, illiteracy, or lack of health insurance. There is an ethical issue here that is discussed among ethicists and it is called “Good for one, bad for all” and “Bad for one, good for all.” A “Fair Tax” is “good for one, bad for all” while the progressive income tax that we have is “bad for one, good for all”. Those for a Fair Tax are not their brother’s keeper; those opposed to a Fair Tax are. Taxes are the price of living in a civilized society and those pushing for a “Fair Tax” have not thought through the implications of their greedy desires. I pay school taxes, even though I have no children because I have a vested interest in an educated citizenry to govern society. I don’t know that I am getting a good return on my investment (it is obvious to me that Tea Party protesters are not particularly well educated), but I’m still willing to make that investment.

A Flat Tax society would closely resemble feudal Europe, where the feudal barons lorded it over the peasantry. I do not wish to live in such a society … do you want your grandchildren to?

Anyway, I read that we’re paying the lowest taxes that we’ve had in a long time.

Jeff, what’s wrong with the Fair Tax? I thought it made sense and that it’s…fair–the more you can afford to buy, the more you can afford to pay. No?

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