flat tax

Rebuttal and Analysis "Well to make my stance more clear, I belive every tax rate needs a constitutional ammendment to pass. This is so when the goverment passes lets say a 9% or a 6% tax then they cant keep raising it every time they blink" This has nothing to do with our debate. It does not affirm the topic nor negate any of my contentions. "100% is imopssible anyway, and our goverment isnt that dumb to make a 100% tax at this time." A flat tax can be any rate as long as "taxpayers pay taxes at the same percentage rate of their total income" so it is irrelevant if our government would implement a 100% income tax or not. What is relevant is that a flat tax could call for 100% of an individual’s income. "Should my parents who make x amount oof money get taxed 40% and not the people a few miles away?" No. Nobody's income should be taxed. "Further more they use our schools, our roads, our police system, and they don't pay for it." All of these things are generally funded by local and state governments and not the federal income tax so a flat tax would do little to fix this problem. "if the buissnses are taxed less they will be more likely to hire. EX. lets say after investments I have 1,000,000$. I own a company. Then the goverment comes and takes 50%. Or after the flat tax with an ammendment is passed I only lose 10%. Woould I be inclined to hire more with losing 50% or 10%. I would build a new factory and hire with the 10% law!" Using this logic wouldn't 0% spark even more economic growth than 10%? If we assume that lowering income taxes improves economic growth, a 0% income tax rate would always beat a 10% tax rate. "Well, It is not economically sound." Exactly. "Also it is still economically sound" How can something be not economically sound and still be economically sound? "a flat tax is a lot better then the tax system we have now." That is not the debate. "If those people with no taxes get hired then they get taxed, and can get promoted. Thats what capitilism is about." Not exactly. Capitalism- an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.[10] "I still don't understand how the goverment owns our income. Is it because they set it to wherever they want?" When you get down to the basics, it is either one of two things; either the government owns 100% of your income and allows you to keep a percentage of it or they steal a percentage of your income. "Well they do that now don't they? Just saying." If you are implying I support the current tax system you are mistaken. If you are not implying that, this argument has no validity in this debate. "A system without an income tax is terrible. Weve seen this in europe. They pass a sales tax and keep raising it." It is absurd to claim that a system with no income tax is terrible and then give an example of why it is terrible with systems that have income taxes. Also, a sales tax is no more manipulatable than a flat tax. "You can't really regulate raising and lowering the sales tax because the federal goverment keeps a 10% tax on goods and you state tax just keeps raising it unless the feds tell them to stop. so its 10% federal tax, 30% state tax. Wow that sounds good... not." The more local a tax is the more power citizens have over that tax so I don't understand where you are coming from when you claim the Federal government would have to interfere with state taxation to keep it from getting out of control. It is far more likely for Federal taxes to get out of hand.[10]http://www.merriam-webster.com...