@NLXSK1 It's pretty cute that for such a "free and independent thinker" you're falling straight for the Republican Spindocter thing of "Flat tax = fair tax," or statistical manipulations. Why do the majority of tea partiers favor this? Well, for one, the surveyor asks, "Do you support a
fair flat tax?"
Fair being the keyword. Most of these Tea Party Dumbfucks don't even know what the hell the word
fair means as the Koch Brothers have co opted their once ludicrous movement into a way for them to continue to try to shit on progressive, forward thinking policies and turned it into the Tea Party in Alice in Wonderland, Mad Hatter et all.
Oh and
@Uncle Ben you might want to pull up a chair for this one because for "such a successful businessman" with "so much financial savvy" you really do look like college freshman who just got introduced to College Republicans via the Sorostitute blonde hair blue eyed girl who thinks Kim Kardishian is the end-all-be-all of news, and lol omg like Donald Trump like totally speaks for like all of us because like if Obama gets like into office again or like another Democrat my daddy like who just bought me like this really nice car says like my trust fund is going to go away and like how ever is he going to like pay for my pool or like my horses if like the government spends all our money on like poor people, so now you have a total hard-on for the Conservatards.
We all get that taxes are a pain in the ass, this is a no brainer. However, what some of you Conservatards seem to forget is that
taxes are necessary. I know that everything privatized to the point where society is split between the "haves" and the "have nots," the United States has been renamed to the "United States of America brought to you by the Phillip-Nike-Pepsi-Coke-Kraft Conglomerate," everyone lives in gated communities, and outside of the gated communities is where all the minorities and "undesirables" live in lawless areas, but that's besides the point.
So let's break down WHY the flat tax is so stupid, and WHY you're gobbling up this stupid political marketing term of "Fair Tax" like you were an Somali child sitting down at an obese American's Thanksgiving dinner table for the first time.
Let's start low @ 10% and we'll take Johnny Lowincome @ $20,000, and Johnny Highincome @ $1,000,000. Now let's say Johnny Lowincome and Johnny Highincome spend the same amount per year: $10,000. Now, when tax time comes around, Johnny L will shell out $2,000 (10% in taxes) leaving him with $18,000, while Johnny H will shell out $100,000 (10% in taxes) leaving him with $900,000. Here's where it becomes unfair: Johnny L, for basic living expenses during the year will now only be left with $8,000 dollars or 40% of his wealth, whereas Johnny H will be left with
89% of his total wealth. Is this fair? No.
Now I know what you're going to say right off the bat, "That's not a fair comparison!" Because they're both spending $10,000 on basic living expenses. So, how do we remedy this? Do we increase the amount that Johnny H spends a year, or do we decrease the amount that Johnny L spends a year? The conservative in me screams, "Johnny L should spend less! He's poor!" But guess what? It doesn't work that way. In reality, Johnny L is going to
spend more than $10,000 a year in basic living expenses most likely, unless he lives in a box. Now if Johnny L has a wife, Joanna L, and two children Jimmy L and Jamie L, he might be spending almost
everything he earns after taxes. So rather than being left with 40% of his wealth, we might actually see that he'll be left with ~1-20% of his wealth at the end of it.
Right now, because of Reagan, we are actually looking at
the lowest Capital Gains, Income, and Corporate tax since the 1920s. And people are sitting there scratching their heads wondering
why income inequality is an issue, and
why the Federal government has to keep borrowing money and increase our debts. Well, it really doesn't take an economist to figure out that taxes are what keeps a government running, and when you
lower taxes to one of the
lowest rates in history, the Federal government is not going to have a lot of money. Really, it's SUPER simple math, and I hate math.
Effectively, the Libertarian-esque wet dream that is Rand Paul and his "Fair flat tax" of 14.5% would
lower taxes on the rich, because they currently pay 20% in taxes, and
raise taxes on the poor because if you making 20-25,000/year you're only going to be paying maybe like 4-10% in taxes or something like that. So now do we all understand
why the flat tax isn't so "Fair?"
Q.E.D. mic drop.
