"Roger Halstead" wrote in message
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On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 21:22:28 -0700, "Tom Sixkiller"
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"Roger Halstead" wrote in message
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With a good grassroots effort, we can do this. The biggest obstacle we
face is
the attitutde that it can't be done.

You also face the flat tax places an unfair burden on the poor who can
not afford to pay the same percent as those in a higher income
bracket.

The flat tax doesn't even kick in until something like a $25,000 income
level.

If it does it's not a flat tax.

It's flat once you reach the threshold.

Also at $25,000 you are still talking individuals who can not afford
to spare a dime.

Right now taxes kick in at $8000 for an unmarried person.


Today's, "taxable income" yes, but not a plain income and if it deals
that way, again it's not a flat tax.

Not in the strictest sense -- it does remove much of the depraved idiocy of
out present system (when GE sent their taxes into the Feds, it took a semi
tractor trailer to deliver all the paperwork.).

I'm opposed to a flat tax in that is leaves the IRS pretty much intact. Such
an agency with such powers has no place in a country ostensibly dedicated to
liberty. And, yes, Congress gave them their power, but even they can't reign
them in anymore.