I do not care how much a person earns a year, they only get one ballot to fill out come election time. And yes they all get a tax bill for an equal amount. This is what equality under the law is all about.
You said for a guy earning a million — $1200 a hundred bucks a month should do it. If as you said, “they all get a tax bill for an equal amount”. Then the guy earning 12,000 gets to pay that same amount a month. $1200 X 12 = $14,400. Where is this guy going to get the $2400 he owes ?
I made a mistake, you said that the millionaire actually pays just $1,200 a year and that’s all. Fine, that means the guy earning $12,000 a year pays 10% of his salary in taxes and the millionaire pays close to zero percent of his salary in taxes.
The implication is this -— Let’s say there are 200 million taxpayers in this country, each paying $1,200 a year.
That means the US government collects :
200,000,000 X $1,200 = $240 Billion in taxes.
Try defending the country and keeping the peace and securing our borders ( the essential role of government ) and maybe keeping the country’s infrastructure on that amount.
Think Thomas Jefferson would agree with you?
"Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1785
The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied... Our revenues liberated by the discharge of the public debt, and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings." --Thomas Jefferson to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1811.