Anson Macdonald  wrote:
> Josh Hill wrote:
>
> > Not to mention that a flat income tax makes the overall tax system
> > regressive, because many or most other personal taxes are regressive.
> > The poor would end up paying a higher percentage of their income in
> > taxes than the middle class, and the middle class would pay a higher
> > percentage than the rich.
>
> How exactly do lower classes pay a higher percentage of their income
> under a flat tax?

In the US there's a minimum income before income taxes
turn on at all so any flat tax will be higher than that zero.
of course it's not really zero as FICA starts at zero and it
has long since been tapped as tax revenue for federal
spending.
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