It's always seemed self-evident to me that 10% of $1000 -- leaving them $900 -- would hurt the average lower-middle-class person far more than 10% of $1,000,000 -- leaving them with a paltry $900,000 to deal with.
ADd to this that you can't tax the poor at an equal rate with the wealthy and get all the money you need to run a government as big as the United States' with all the entitlements the folks in the US seem to want.
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Date: 2007-05-23 01:44 pm (UTC)ADd to this that you can't tax the poor at an equal rate with the wealthy and get all the money you need to run a government as big as the United States' with all the entitlements the folks in the US seem to want.