The Flat Tax System

Would you prefer the graduated to flat tax or flat to the graduated tax? The graduated tax system, also known as the progressive tax system of the United States of America, has been in place since the time Abraham Lincoln. Many people disagree with each other that the progress tax system is unfair because tax rates create more of a task on lower income wage earners. Reform is being considered, one plan is the flat tax, which states everyone will pay the same tax rate. Flat tax is better than the graduated tax because a flat tax treats all tax payers equally, undergoing the "equal justice under law" principle. Most people wish to be economically equal when it comes to taxes so that the money they work for is not abused with high taxes. "With …show more content…
This system will depend on today's society. For example, low tax payers ten percent, middle income is twenty percent, and high income thirty percent. When the economy is weak, people's income decline, so the government collects less in tax revenues and spends more for safety net programs such as unemployment insurance. The government does not have its own money. There receipts come from individual income taxes. A progressive taxation versus flat taxation that inspires ongoing debate according to, "The rise in the federal government revenue needs is likely to prompt efforts to increase the high tax burden on saving upcoming decades", (Viard) which will help people with higher taxes have even amounts of money. The high taxes that people pay for the ones that just sit at home is not the right thing. What to do is fix it with the flat tax system and they need to get up and work like everyone in this country has the right to do instead of depending on a paycheck. "A stronger economy offering better wages and better job opportunities is also the most powerful antidote," describing that the taxes would go in good hands and not be abused (Foster). Instead of being thrown away they would be used correctly. These taxes would be used for public uses like transition, and international issues, etc. At the average tax rate, it incorporates taxes paid at all levels of income, so naturally it is obvious that it will be less than the marginal rate. There are high …show more content…
No adults were home so her brothers soaked her foot in kerosene because they had nothing to do and thought it would help. She still has the scar today. Once during a very hot day at school she wore a sweater over her shirt because her shirt had a hole in it. The teacher asked her is she was hot and she said, "no, I'm cold" because she was afraid she would be made fun of. They raised their own chickens. She recalls going to the pen with a wire hanger and catching a chicken by hooking the hanger around its neck. Then she would wring its neck be shaking it hard. After that she would pluck off the feathers, gut and clean it and cook it for dinner. She started working hard at a very early age. She recalls standing on a chair and making biscuits for the family. They wallpapered the rooms in their home with newspaper. They draped quilts in the doorways of the rooms of the house to hold the heat in. They had gas space heaters and they would put a can of water on top to put humidity in the air. The women canned foods and quilted when they weren't working in the fields or gardening. And the men chopped wood in their spare time. They where so poor that they didn't have to worry about taxation. But the economy just tanked and you where very lucky to find a job as they where very scarce. This interview gave me a new insight as to how difficult life must have been during the Great Depression compared to today. The