[bryanthompson]

damn straight, flat tax is definitely the way to go.

The reason it won't happen is that we have a lot of poor people who are out of any reasonable tax bracket, so going from 1% or 0% taxes to 15% is a humongous tax increase, meanwhile those of us paying 20-40% taxes would get a huge break. By shifting the tax base onto a minority, they have a majority of freeloaders whining about over-taxation on themselves, which doesn't exist. Then when a tax cut comes and only the people actually paying taxes get a cut they get all mad.

I guess if you make no money and pay no taxes, everyone who makes money and pays taxes would be considered 'the rich'. which would be why only 'the rich' get the tax cut, when compared to homeless or welfare recipients.