Please help me debunk the 'flat tax' meme.

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13. Benefits from and costs for government service don't accrue per capita.

They accrue rather more porportionately according to wealth and influence

The homeless need no fire protection service for their non-existant homes. The bigger more expensive the home, the more valuable it's contents, the more its resident/owner benefits from fire protection services.

A poor person can't cause near the complexity of harms that a rich person can. Consequently we must have more regulatory and policing forces to protect society from the rich and the reach of their criminal influence. The homeless person has little direct need to be scrutinized by the securities and exchange commission.

Rich folks worry about shit like the need to go to war in Iraq and Iran to manipulate the oil and other resource markets. Because of the inifluence of the rich on going to war, the nation regularly encumbers hundreds of billions and recently trillions of dollars in current and future debt on behalf of those warring interests. The rich who benefit from these capitalist expeditions should pay a fair share of the costs, not a per capita cost.