Reply #16: A kick in the face and a kick in the crotch are different things too [View All]

[Chulanowa]

But they both end up with you on the ground clutching where you were kicked and considering your day to have taken a very wrong turn, don't they?

The flat tax takes away an equal percentage of income from everyone's paycheck.
The fair tax adds an equal percentage of cost to each product.

Because a loaf of bread doesn't give a damn how much money you have, both proposals screw the hell out of those with less money. The flat tax reduces the buying power of the poor exponentially more than it does the rich (15% of $250,000 is, in terms of buying power, less of a deduction than 15% of $25,000). The fair tax is even worse, in that it actively punishes those with less money for buying. (Is paying 25% more for that loaf of bread more or less painful if you're on a $200 a week paycheck lifestyle than if you're on that $250,000 annual income?)

But... you get what I'm saying. :) I just want to gnaw the faces off the people who came up with these ideas, like a badger mauling a potato.