Originally Posted By: sini
I would support flat tax if first 25K of all income (inflation-adjusted) was excluded from any taxes.


I could get behind that. Taxing the bottom 20% really does not generate much in terms of absolute revenue, but does have an asymmetric negative push on their finances.

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