Two excellent reasons to OPPOSE gay marriage in the UK

[Tiberius]

If I was rich, why would I want to treat poor people worse than I would want to be treated, by requiring them to pay astronomically higher taxes relative to their income when they already bring in just a tiny fraction of what I have?

To say that the flat tax is equal is true only up to a point. If everyone pays the same tax rate, that's equal only if everyone is paid the same amount of money. Since this is obviously not the case, a flat percent tax on goods and services is of virtually no consequence to the rich while being potentially devastating to the poor (who must spend a far larger portion of their far tinier incomes on these things, by necessity). Them as has, gits.

1) I've argued against income tax in this thread, so your argument against my point makes no sense.

2) A flat tax is equal, because the percentage is equal. 10% of 10,000 is less than 10% of 100,000, but it's still 10%...the same equal rate.

3) In this thread I've also advocated that under any income tax system, the first $X should be non-taxable, where X is the calculated living wage for a person, dependent on their area (i.e. taking into consideration house prices / rents).