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So a tax where everybody pays the same % on money they've earned regardless of dollar amount is unfair in your eyes?
That's just silly talk dude
That "earning" is dependent on the maintenance of the economic system (including the retention of market demand, i.e. people having the ability to buy shit), the very existence of the market through its creation by the democratic government (i.e. voters entering into social contracts to obey the rules of the market and not say "I own that instead of you"), the contribution of other's labor, and preconditions that are completely immaterial to the respective earners, such as the fact that one of the guys might have had a great-great-great grandfather who stole and murdered his way into a massive fortune and ownership of real property (which is a fixed pie) and the other guy might be the first or second person in his generation to even be allowed to prospectively earn money.
Having a flat tax system necessarily and quickly leads to concentration of wealth, across generations, due in no way to the effort of the subsequent generations. A tiny section of people are born rich and an increasingly larger portion of the others are born poor(er and poorer) - and then the formers get to assert they earned that money fairly and that everyone else is poor due to an inherently fair system, just because people like you say so.
Your "equal taxation is fair and saying anything else is more fair is silly" is just reduction. Ignorant reduction.
@Jack V Savage Do you have a better/clearer answer for this question re the fundamentally unfair nature of flat taxation over a period of time? I've been down this road with ODB way too many times, and it may just be that I'm not sufficiently articulate enough in explaining this shit.