Whether a tax is fair or not depends on your definition of fair tax. A flat tax takes the same portion of each person's income but is that really fair? For a person earning only $10,000 a 10% tax is likely to require him to give up some necessities of life. For a multimillionaire the 10% tax will require no sacrifice of necessities. Things such food stamps, welfare, and income exclusions help mitigate the problem for the poor but does not correct the inequity for middle class.Ame®icano;4166330 said:So would low income earners. A true flat is the most unfair tax of all. The percentage is the same for everyone the burden certainly is not. A 10% flat on someone making only $10,000 would be devastating. For some one making a 100,000 it would be a burden. For someone making 10 million a year it would an inconvenience.a flat tax would destroy the socialist income redistribution dreams of the left !! if republicans could implement a flax tax into law the left would be destroyed !!
Many don't want to go over their bracket knowing government will tax them more. Once you realize government will tax you same percentage regardless of income, there is no reason to have brackets anymore.
Here is example. My friend's company hired dozen of people thru the job service for $10 an hour. Service was charging $2, so they were effectively working for $8 an hour. After two months company offered to hire them directly, for $10 and half of them rejected the job, because - if they make more money they would lose gov't assistance.
That's that kind of mentality. They probably started working because they were in danger of losing assistance.
Anyways, why flat tax is unfair?
Going to a higher tax bracket just means that earnings in the higher bracket are going to be subject to 3% or 5% more income tax. I seriously doubt anyone is going give up work because they are required to pay 3% or 5% more tax on the additional earnings. When we had large jumps in brackets, say 70% to 90% that may have been true.
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