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Old 11-30-2006, 05:43 PM   #5
Flint
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Originally Posted by Aliantha
Can I ask a question about flat tax please.

If you want everyone to pay the same rate of tax, does that mean you'll raise it a bit for the lower incomes and lower it for higher?

If that's the case, and your country already has massive poverty problems associated with minimum wage earners etc, how do you think that will be recieved?
Thats' why it will never, ever, ever get anywhere within a thousand miles of even being considered.
It would wreck the whole system and ruin millions of people's lives. Some things look good "on paper" . . .
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