Level Taxes

Recently the idea of a level tax rate has become popular. Many people feel that its the only way to fairly tax the population. I have to admit for a long time I felt the same way. I was able to argue the logic and necessity of such a taxing system. I decided to find another country that uses this system and find out how it works in that country to be able to use as an example of the superiority of  a single rate system. 

Interestingly though, no matter how much I looked I couldn't find such a country. So I began to try and figure out why of all the other countries none had adopted this system that seemed so logical. As I looked into it the logic of our progressive tax became much more understandable. It can be understood by asking and answering two simple questions.  1) Should those that use the most government services pay the most in taxes. 2) Is it fair to treat everybody exactly alike? 

Should Those that use the most services pay the most in taxes?

If you think the answer to this question is no! There is no need to go on the flat tax is for you. The plain fact is that the rich use the majority of our government services. They drive the most cars: They use the airports the most: They demand the attention of the police (an example is the 25000 dollars spent in B. Spears to take her to the court): I'm sure not many public marinas are fashioned for the poor: Public Schools in rich areas are always much better than public school in poor areas: Roads are maintained to higher degree in the upper level areas than the lower levels: I could go on forever but I won't bore you with a gigantic list of things that the government provides for the rich that they don't provide for the poor. The truth is that the rich receive many more government services than do the poor so logic only dictates that the rich should pay much more for the services they receive.

Is it fair to treat everybody exactly alike?

The answer to this is emphatically no! especially in this country where we have such a diverse population: The young have different needs than the old. Farmers have different needs than city folk and Urban areas have different needs than the Suburbs. Business has a whole set of needs that the private citizen doesn't even think of.  All these different needs need different funding.

So in conclusion, people of higher means receive more service and can afford to support our society so they should pay a higher percentage of their income toward it. I know from personal observation that ten dollars means a lot more to many of my friends than it does to me. So if you are in the part of society that pays higher taxes be thankful that you are, because you get more of the blessings this country offers.