Quote Originally Posted by Hlleonard View Post
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There are a lot of folks who believe a flat tax would be the answer to our budgetary problems... It just seems to me if half the people, as Mr. Romney says, pay no taxes, then our system must be saying these folks are in a financial condition where they can't afford to pay taxes, if thats the case then I don't understand how charging them taxes on goods and services won't result either in a greater hardship on them or cause them to need more government assistance and at the same time we are reducing taxes on the upper class so that looks to me like a disaster in the making.
We all have budgets and I don't care if someone else experiences budget issues like I/we all do. Apparently Obama didn't care either or he wouldn't have done that to people like me with Obamacare.

IMO....The assumption that people who don't pay taxes are hard up is another false thought. Many are scamming the system and using them as a reason to not try a consumption tax or flat tax is unfair. It's saying the minority will dictate what the majority does and that is wrong in my opinion. Also it might clean up some of the abuse the system gets hammered with now.

I'm sure some are hurting but I know many who just don't care and spend way more than they should on eating out or buying way to much junk...them when they don't get their 4k back each year they gripe. Of course they want that large check to go buy a big screen.

Im really not as cold hearted as it sounds. I just don't like to keep doing things the same way when it suckks and when a new idea is out there the concern is more about the few instead of the many. There has to be a better way.