Please help me debunk the 'flat tax' meme.

[Proud Public Servant]

5. First of all

Don't let them hide behind the label "flat tax." This is not a flat tax; it's a tax on children, period.

Second, note that, if it works, his scheme will discourage childbirth, resulting in a negative birth rate. Ask him if he has any idea how economically devastating a negative birth rate would be; point to Japan as a good example.

Third, don't let him argue that the rich will have more children. Right now, paying lower taxes than he's proposing, the rich don't have enough children to keep our birth rate positive; they certainly won't have more if his idea works as intended.

(Finally, obviously, the proposal is stupid and unjust; there's no logic to a society wanting people who raise children to have less money that those who don't (which is what he's proposing in the end). I assume he is immune to arguments about justice and fairness, but make them anyway.)