Why do citizens support a flat tax?

That's just Starman being the racist he's always been.

 

It'll never come to fruition, but other Republican candidates will also campaign on some form of it. Perry already is.

I just find it absolutely fascinating that people think a flat tax will make them better off. It defines logic. I know that the Democrats should be easily able to counter the flat tax, but what ends up happening is that, "Obama is lecturing us like a professor!" while the Republicans are, "Keeping it simple!" by just repeating, "fair" and "simple" ad nauseum.

At some point, at a campaign stop, isn't a middle-class voter going to ask Cain or Perry straight-on, "Won't I pay more under a flat tax?"

How do they answer that?

 

"TOTALLY" fair for an infant to cough up 11 grand?

 

Why should they be any different than anyone else?

 

Ringing in "simple" certainly has broad appeal to the basest of the GOP base . . .

 

It works because the message isn't "you'll pay more, because that's your fair share." The message that gets through is "everyone ELSE will pay their fair share, just like you already do." The subtle implication is, as always, that there's some underclass of scroungers sucking up tax dollars from hard-working Joe the Plumber types.

And given the target audience of the message, the implication also includes the notion that it's "people who aren't like you" who are the scroungers.

It doesn't help that the Faux Newses of the world constantly peddle this bullshit, which is just as much class warfare as what they like to decry elsewhere, with the nice added bonus of being racial warfare as well.

 

Sure. They can earn money breaking up small pebbles with their rattles at the quarry.

 

Wow, now that's some extrapolation. A flat tax regime is not only a bad idea, it's also racist! Who woulda known?

 

The obvious solution is that national defense should not protect babies.

 

So a flat tax might impose an added burden on infants that should be built into the system?

 

Shouldn't babies owe a prorated portion of the $11,000 upon their birth if we get our way?

 

It's also good to see he's graduated from using the c-word to using racist terms to refer to a republican candidate.