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Originally Posted by KittyKaiti
A flat tax that is too high will throw millions into the poverty zone and tax too low will result in a major loss of tax revenue. I dunno where your statistics come from but does that mean "43%" of adult citizens in the workforce "do not pay taxes"? Or just overall population?
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I do agree that a flat tax would be hard to figure a
correct percentage. Perhaps some sort of sliding scale, starting at 5% for the lowest income bracket and increasing by 2-5% from there.
I would assume that the statistics come from the number of people who filed their taxes.