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.
You are exactly right! In the past when bills to give tax cuts were put forth the democrats argued that since some people paid no taxes they would be cheated out of a tax cut. Stupidity knows no bounds. Give a politician the right to hand out public funds and you can rest assure he’ll find a way to buy votes.
If there was a set tax then the Govt. would have to learn to live on a budget and cut out some (a lot) of this B.S. spending but that will never happen so I guess it’ll never work.