re: What about raise taxes on rich with more write offs?

I'm no tax expert but I do invest in dividend paying securities. All dividends are taxed at 18% whether you were paid 1$ or 10million$.

A very large portion of the super rich earn the majority of their income in form of dividends so they are taxed only 18%.

It seems to me that there should be a graduated scale for taxing dividends for example the first 100k a year is taxed at 15%. From 100k to 1m is 22%. Over 1m is 25%.

With this you could probably just lower everyone's income tax to some small flat rate and still have more revenue going to the government.

I also could be talking out of my arse.