re: #2 Samita

Progressive tax insults sensibility.

Nonsense. Those at the top benefit more from government proportionally than those at the bottom. The system that allows the top few percent to earn 100 or more times the average should be paid for by those top few percent. It’s not a natural arrangement.

A single blanket exemption and then a flat tax either as an income tax or as a consumption tax - tear down the IRS and the waste involved with the crazy tax system we have.

Every flat tax proposal I’ve ever seen would lower my taxes and those of people earning more that me. I assume these plans make up the difference by increasing taxes on people making less. That is an insult to sensibility.