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<div><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Jay,</SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">The fundamental problem with the flat tax theory is that it assumes everyone benefits equally from the government. The vast majority of tax dollars go to benefiting the wealthiest of Americans, not the average <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> citizen. Further, if the bottom 25% of households had to pay a tax equal in percentage as the wealthiest 5% in order to balance the budget they would have to resort to crime to survive because of the poor wages, limited hours, and no benefits or health care they get from employers who have all the wealth.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="COLOR: black">How about instead, the people with 90% of the resources pay 90% of the taxes, wouldn't that be fair too, Jay?</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr readonly="true" contenteditable="false"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Jay Borden <jborden@datawedge.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com; lfalen@turbonet.com; thansen@moscow.com<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> vision2020@moscow.com<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Monday, August 8, 2011 11:35 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Vision2020] CNN Breaking News<BR></FONT><BR>There are a variety of reasons persons flocked to the New World... The Georgia colony, for example, was established as a refuge for those sentenced to
debtor's prison, and as a colony where the 'poor and destitute' could find a new start. (The British aristocracy felt that getting rid of these folks would relieve their burden from the crown).<BR><BR>If we're talking about every person paying their fair share, then I'm all for an across the board flat tax.... Poor, middle class, and wealthy alike. That's what FAIR means.<BR><BR>Jay<BR><BR>Sent from my Android phone... So ignore the typpos<BR><BR>Donovan Arnold <<A href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:<BR><BR>Actually Roger, this country was built on slave labor and the abundance of natural resources the native peoples kept well preserved and protected for thousands of years.<BR><BR>Taxing wealthier people who use and benefit most from the government is not stealing from them. It is making them pay their fair share.<BR><BR>Donovan
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