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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
Wth a flat tax the less you make, the less you pay. A 12% rate on someone who makes $23,000 would only come to around $200 a month as opposed to someone making $230,000 would be paying over $2,000 a month. The rich will still be paying significantly higher taxes. There are people making 6 figures that are living paycheck to paycheck so I don't think you can say that only lower income earners are the only owns spending all of their income on living expenses. I think if all working Americans were contributing to the income tax burden politicians and government officials would become better stewards of tax revenues, as well as ending the class warfare involving taxation that I've seen all my life.
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The point is, for someone making only $23000 a year, that $200 is probably the difference between eating or not, or buying their medication or not. You can only get living expenses down so low. The belt will only tighten so far. Additionally, you said "per person". So does a single mom with two kids making $23K pay 12% for each person?
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