Progressive Tax is better than a Flat Tax for taxation

I am first of going to talk about the progressive tax. Yes it is the current system we have now. Our tax code is a mess, it has thouthands of pages, and you can't follow every singl law in a 82,000 page book, so everyone is a law breaker. Now I will talk about a flat tax. It is much more simple so everyone knows what the tax code is, and it diminishes wasteful laws and other things so you know whats coming every year. Also it is better for the economy then a progressive tax. Everyone uses roads, traffic lights, and some use public schools right? So in our system now only 50% are paying for what they use, but under a flat tax everyone will pay at least a small amount. I belive if you use sometghing like a road, you ought to pay for its fixing for the good of everyone else. Rebutals: "It taxes the right people more fairly' How is it fair when only 50% of people pay for vital services. Thats like me renting a car and saying I will not pay for it, but the guy behund me should, so fair , I think not. " It brings in more money fairly." Well what do you consider fair, people paying for stuff or people not paying for stuff, but you or I pay for it instead. I know you are talking about income levels, but I will touch that subject later. "It takes more from the super rich" Well people like bill gates owned one of the biggest company's ever. If he got taxed highly his company would still have been very large, but it would have been a slower process. Why? It does this because if you tax job creators very highly then they will be less inclined to hire people as much, as fast, or at one time. A flat tax is acctuslly going to make people richer. Because with people paying a lower rate, and a simple one then big job creators will have more money to hire people. "The rich may spend their money on expensive toys" You go on what they might do and all that stuff, when your ruch you wanna get richer, so you expand your buissnes so you can get bigger, so 9 times out of 10 taxing a rich person lower will help him expand. My personal experoence: My dad was fired r4ecently and were in the 40% tax braket. So 40% will be taken away, he is building his own doctgors office so we can have a scource of income. We are taxed highly and can only afford to hire ___ amount of people. If we wher taxed less, or fairly then he could hire more people, so a flat tax makes everyone richer. Poor people then get jobs=wealth=better economy=everyone gains. tHE FLAT TAX advantage: On the private side, a flat tax reduces the distortions that otherwise arise when two individuals receive different after-tax returns on their labor or investment. The flat tax also eliminates private incentives to concoct wasteful schemes to shift their income onto the ledger of their poorer relatives. (1) On the public side, the flat tax limits political discretion by making it harder for the government to single out "the rich" for special treatment. It also crimps government spending by denying any group the luxury of supporting government expenditures entirely at someone else's expense. (1) Furthermore, annual income is bad proxy for individual consumption. Many wage earners support their own children or even their parents, and thus consume only a fraction of what they earn. Yet these pervasive forms of voluntary redistribution are systematically overlooked. (1) Similarly, the Obama plan will badly hurt people who are saving for retirement. Why should someone who earns $125,000 in each of two years pay lower taxes than one who bunches $250,000 in one year? (1) The obama plan is a progressive tax plan. And is in place now. All in all, Obama's efforts to soak the rich may prove half successful. The rich will be soaked, but everyone else will be left worse off from lagging productivity and asset losses. (1) And since there are no numbers in this debate the yax rate could be from 1% to 100% so since he is using the same things from our tax code today (same numbers probably) I will use the many flat tax proposals out today, such as 9-9-9 or 6-6-6 because those are the only ones possible at this time, and yours ragnge from 0-50%. That is given because you said like the system today vs flat tax, so 0-50 vs 6-9. correct me if I am wrong pleas Yet at the same time Americans think that the tax code is unfair, only 40 percent support a flat tax. The nearly 60 percent who don't think the tax code is unfair are adamantly opposed to a flat tax. Why? With a flat tax, deductions for mortgage interest and charitable contributions would be eliminated. Americans cherish those two deductions more than the child care credit or the deductions for family members or other beneficial tax breaks. (2) The remaining opposition comes from those who believe that with a flat tax the rich would not pay their fair share. I don't know what a fair share is to upper-income people. I do know this. The top 5 percent of current taxpayers pays almost 75 percent of all federal income taxes. (2) once again, does that sound fair? as long as the rate is reasonable, it is, in fact, a fair tax. The rich now can find ways to shelter money from taxation, although many tax shelters were abolished over the years. A flat tax would eliminate deductions. The little tax savings from mortgage interest would be compensated by lower taxes. Same for charitable giving. (2) If a 15 percent flat tax rate were imposed, for example, and a taxpayer earned $40,000, his taxes would be $6,000. But in later years, through hard work and inventiveness, if he earned $1 million, he would pay $150,000 in taxes. America is unique in that it enables those who are enterprising to prosper. The current tax debacle is a deterrent to entrepreneurs. It takes far too much of their earnings, to the point that it is hard for them to re-invest. The vast majority of new jobs in America are created by small companies. Most of those are Subchapter S corporations, meaning the owners get the revenues from the corporations and can re-invest extra money in their companies. The more money they would have available to re-invest, the more employment we would have. A flat tax would help to accomplish that. (2) scources: http://www.forbes.com... (1) http://archive.newsmax.com... (2)