"Pete C." wrote in news:4f205038$0$30349$a8266bb1
@newsreader.readnews.com:

It's not "progressive" (a.k.a. socialist), if it is the same rate for
everyone and only has a poverty cutoff.

as well as:

To be clear, I firmly believe the person at the McD grill, Bill Gates
and myself should all be paying the same percentage of our income in
taxes. This of course means Bill will pay the most in $, the McD guy the
least and I will be in the middle somewhere.

To have 2 scales, a zero scale for the real poor, and a uniform scale for
everyone else is philosophically the same as having multiple, progressive
scales. Flat taxers shoul first focus on getting rid of loopholes.

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Best regards
Han
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