The Flat-Tax Fraud, and the Necessity of a Truly Progressive Tax

If you ever had to survive around the poverty line - or work hard to help pay part of your way through college - or dealt with any actual, real financial stress due to being out of a job or underemplo­yed, you would have some shred of understand­ing of what $500 means to someone struggling to get by (all the while paying local taxes, social security taxes, medicare taxes, and state taxes).



Conversely­, $500 is nothing to people clearing even $300k or more a year (unless they've insisted on living beyond their means out of 4 houses and collect rare cars).



Is it fair? Maybe not completely fair. But someone like you inflicting additional hardship on those to whom you have no ability to relate certainly sounds unfair, too.



You don't really want fairness. You want a pound of flesh. Big difference­.
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