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Hah. You are making the case that a flat tax is regressive because current income taxes are progressive. So moving from progressive to flat is regressive. Its

• monocasa 9y ago
  No I'm making the argument that a flat tax is regressive because the utilitarian value of a dollar isn't anywhere near linear with total income. With a flat tax: * On the high end you're taking from ability to have luxuries. * On the low end you're taking from the ability to pay rent and put enough food on your table for your children.
  • conanbatt 9y ago
    After criticizing my argument that looking at spending of taxes is necessary to argue if its progressive or regressive, you now propose an argument that would make progressive taxes also regressive unless they are enough to compensate the utilitarian value of how the poorer and the richer spend their own wealth. The utilitarian argument is for me one of the most practical and also one of the most scary. Are you ready to exploit the poor if it were proven that it was economically profitable to do so? I digress. My point is that seeing flat taxes as regressive is either false or inconclusive, regardless of the desire of being flat, regressive or progressive in taxation.