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We have been through this time and time again, in thread after thread, no matter what the actual topic.
A flat tax is the rich mans wet dream since it will give them a tax cut. And that is your only priority Turtle. Lets look at your various tax positions over the past few weeks:
1 - You insist that taxation should be based upon how much government services one utilizes and everyone should be taxed based on what they use like a retail shopping experience at Costco. You say this over and over and over again, you say this in thread after thread after thread. You cling to this the way a drowning man in the ocean clings to a piece of driftwood and refuse to give it up claiming that this is your sacred principle and is what is right and ethical.
2- You suddenly trash that position in favor of a 180 degree turn to the exact opposite - suddenly you favor a per capita tax where everyone pays the same regardless of what government services they consume or use. Your sacred principle went out the window, was smashed and trashed, was flushed down the porcelain receptacle in favor of the directly opposite approach. What happened to your sacred principle that you espoused for a very long time?
3 - Then you trash and bury the per capita idea in favor of a consumption tax which has nothing at all to do with government services that were the lynchpin in ideas #1 and #2.
And even though all three ideas are polar opposites of each other in principle, they all have one thing in common: they give Turtle a tax cut since they benefit the wealthy.
If you see as a PRINCIPLE the idea that what is good for Turtle is the final standard - then that seems to be what passes for principle in your eyes.
You have made it clear with your 180 pivots and reversals that you have no political principles - you have only your selfish interests at heart.
right now the richest 1 percent make 22% of the income but pay almost 40% of the income tax
but Haymarket is against any tax system that would allow the rich to pay less of the tax burden because that hurts his party
a flat tax would mean that the richest 1 percent would pay about 25% of the income tax if they pay 22% of the income. that seems fair to me
Haymarket thinks that its wrong for me to argue against a system that makes one group pay more of the taxes than almost 90% of the rest of the country.