[Married with Children]

How hard it is for everyone to pay a fixed percent. Much the same way Christians are to give 10% of their earnings in a tithe. If everyone had to pay a set percent it would be fair to everyone.

[RobFromGa]

I agree with you, but the problem with a fixed percent is that we have almost 50% of the people paying close to nothing now, and they all get the same vote as the 50% that are footing the entire bill. Actually the top 10% are footing more than half the bill.

So, any tax plan has to buy off the lower income, non-tax-paying folks. The FairTax does this by putting every American man, woman and child on the monthly dole with a shiny government check every month whether they purchase any taxable goods or not. EVERY AMERICAN on the dole.

And of course future politicians would use that socialist monthly check to social engineer and buy future votes. But FairTaxers would have you believe that in the world after the FairTax politicians will no longer be politicians. Yet another FairTax fraud.

[Saint Reagan]

How hard it is for everyone to pay a fixed percent. Much the same way Christians are to give 10% of their earnings in a tithe. If everyone had to pay a set percent it would be fair to everyone.

Not quite. A flat tax would not be ideal for the following reasons:

1. It's very easy to change a "flat" tax so it's no longer flat.
2. Money has no intrinsic value until it is spent. Taxing consumption makes more sense than taxing savings.
3. Americans overseas would no longer be required to pay US taxes while they enjoy no services of the government (embassies charge a fortune for every little service they provide!)
4. Foreigners (including illegals) in America would pay taxes like everybody else.
5. The IRS would cease to exist and people wouldn't need to file tax returns.
6. And so on...