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Anti-flat tax group to launch ballot initiative
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For years all I heard from the citizens of Utah is how fair a flat tax would be. Everyone wanted it. Even those who knew that they would pay a little more at different times in their lives, felt the flat tax would be more fair and easier to understand.
Now we have it and people are whining. What gives? Just goes to prove the old sayings about not being able to make everyone happy.
Tinker with just two numbers (the tax rate and the exemption) and you can create a wide variety of progression curves to meet various needs, creeds, and situations.
It sounds like Utah's system is within striking distance of being this kind of "flat" (but actually progressive) system, and I think that's a good thing. Now just tinker with the numbers to make it a "fair" tax.
History teaches us over and over again to be aware of the tendency of a Republic to degenerate into socialism and eventually communism.
The tenure of this Republic we inherited from our forefathers relies on We the People to quell such attempts at transformation wherever they may be.
If this group of people intend to add value to society then why don't they suggest a tax system that is better than both of the systems currently in the debate? Pointing out a couple of "flaws" in the "flat" tax system is not an acceptable argument to revert backward toward communism.
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