re: Flat tax

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Maybe I am dense.

How does a flat tax take a higher percentage of income from low income workers versus high income workers?

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You're not dense, he's using the Newspeak definition for "regressive". They like how the word "regressive" sounds, and since we don't have a regressive tax structure they've essentially changed the definition to "any tax a leftist doesn't think is fair".

It’s a simple concept dude.

A 15% flat tax hurts a $40K household income budget more than a $200K household.

Why are yall so dense?

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You’re just regurgitating what you read on a flat tax website. Put some thought into it.

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For starters - My post history on the FairTax/NRST is extensive, and everything I share that is not quoted and sourced is my own work. I have researched this plan extensively since I learned about it in 2000 from Neal Boortz. I don't need to lift notes from FairTax.org or any other site. I can hold my own in the discussion.

That you are conflating a flat tax with a National Retail Sales Tax proves that while one of us absolutely needs to look further into the matter, it is not me, and this will be my only reply in a battle of wits against an unarmed opponent.

I dated a Canadian back in the late 80's/early 90's. Canada had a federal 7% GST (goods and services tax) and a 6%Provencial sales tax, so they had 13% sales tax.

The grift in everything our government does is making them plan on 25%federal, if they do this.

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Why are yall so dense?

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Because you said that a flat tax is a higher percentage against low wage earners versus high wage earners.

That is obviously why i am so dense .

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As written, the National Retail Sales Tax completely replaced the income tax, repeals the 16th amendment, abolishes the IRS AND [removes the tax liability on everyone at the poverty line via its prebate system that's paid out to all households.

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Seems to me this is the part to appeal to the UBI crowd.

Unless you are rich, this is a bad idea for you.

How do you not get that take 15% of a $40K income makes it much harder to survive and get by than take 15% of $150K income?

Thats the whole frickin point. This board is blinded by their absolute hatred for the poor that yall advocate these brain dead policies that have absolutely zero change of becoming law.

Keep malding though. This board consistently has the most brain dead takes when it comes to tax policy.

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Thats the whole frickin point.

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It must be a different point.
Because that isn't what you originally said.

Is Obama care evil because it forces people to pay more than they previously wanted?

Paying into the system is inherently hatred for the poor?

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Seems to me this is the part to appeal to the UBI crowd.

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There are always going to be battle lines drawn at the point of income disparities when it comes to matters of taxation. The NRST "prebate" seeks to eliminate opposition to the plan based on something so simple as the typical class warfare rhetoric.

Each household gets a payment at the beginning of the month equal to the amount of tax that's expected to be paid for basic necessities for that family's size. Period. The prebate is irrespective of income.

This is why there are no exemptions/deductions/exceptions to the NRST being applied to all new goods & services.

If a Democrat wrote the plan, they'd be all for it, but it was written by a GA Congressman (John Linder) and the libs literally can't even because it doesn't actively seek to punish achievement.