Dr. Bluefall

No, because you’re charging people the same effective rate regardless of their ability to pay.

Someone in the 0.1% of the 0.1% can afford to give a lot more of their income than someone in the bottom 25%. As such, a flat tax rate would negatively impact lower income taxpayers compared to high-earners.

Hence why I described it as “regressive” in my earlier comment.

The issue with a flat tax system, though, is that the value behind each dollar is different for different classes of people.

$20 is chump change for a billionaire. $20 for a middle class person might be some nice takeout for an evening. $20 could mean whether or not a working poor person can eat that day, or if they have to save what money they have for rent or electricity.

A flat tax system isn’t actually “flat”, not in practice. It’d be more accurate to describe it as “regressive”.

I deleted my account around the start of the original blackout, and from then only really checked r/ModCoord & r/Save3rdPartyApps. These days I only really briefly pop into r/ModCoord to check for any updates on the situation.