Originally Posted by rush549
News flash. The middle class is dying. We are in a plutonomic state that was caused by taxes being diverted to the middle class. The poor can't pay, the rich won't pay. And the rest are left struggling to push our economy uphill. And a flat tax will only make things worse. When the rich are the people pushing for a flat tax, you can d@mned well bet, it isn't in the middle or lower classes best interest. Taxes are not strucured to be fair. They are used as a means of molding a stable economy. As in everything else. Balance is everything. If we had things their way we would have a Libertarian Mecca, like Somalia, or Haiti. Is that what you want?
those rich people that everyone loves to hate work very hard at one thing, MAKING MORE MONEY. does Bill Gates, the Waltons, Warren Buffet, the Koch brothers, the Facebook creator or any number of other super-super rich people need anymore money, of course not. They risk huge amounts of money, that in turn provide many many jobs so that every dollar they make gets taxed at a much higher rate than the rest of us.
What would happen if those evil super-rich got together and decided the hell with it I've got enough money to last 1,000 lifetimes, I'm done with it all fires everyone and leaves the country with all their money. The last 2 years would be looked at like the good ol' times