Portal Star wrote:You made it seem like the poor were paying a higher percentage, when they would be paying the exact same percentage as everyone else.
False, please do not engage in debate so sloppy that you allege things I never said or implied.
You need to be specific. "Same percentage" of what?
I said that in a flat tax the percentage of income taxed might be the same but that the percentage of "spending money" would not.
I never once "made it seem like the poor are paying a higher percentage" of income. They are not.
But they
are paying a higher percentage of spending money.
Please do not be so sloppy, they are two very different statistics.
Quote: If you make $1.00 a year, that's about 20 cents. If you make $10,000 a year, that's $2,000. That's a tax burden exactly proportionate to income.
Proportionate to income but not proportionate to the ability to pay out of said income.
The point I made was how quality in taxation of income is no indication of equality in taxation of available money to pay with.
You are focusing of the perceived equality of income tacation in a flat tax to ignore all the inequality that does not suit your fancy.
This is your prerogative but I'd appreciate it if you demonstrated the ability to understand what I am saying before trying to argue against it.
I've never said that a flat tax would tax income at an inequal rate. I said that said perception of equality disregards the substantial inequality there would be when you look at other statistics.
So if you want to challenge statistics stick with the same ones, challenging one statistic by referring to another is just more sloppy logic.
Quote:Someone pointed out that a flat tax wouldn't be representative of the cost of living in different areas. But that wouldn't be a problem under the flat tax if minimum wage was calculated based on cost of living (I think it is - but on average).
You aren't making sense. To make the proportions of money paid after living expenses are deducted equal everyone would have to have the same sallary.
So the minimum wage would have to be the maximum wage.
Or, the tax would have to take the ability to pay into consideration, as it currently does.
