“"I find these flat-taxers asinine. "”

“It's a sliding scale, not stepped”

I’m sure someone starving in Africa on $2.00 a month would put you on a “sliding scale” until you only had $6.00 a month take home. Why should you have a car when they don’t have shoes. Communism doesn’t work.

We need the rich (whether we like it or not) to keep investing and spending their money to keep the rest of us employed.