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The United States should implement a flat tax, regardless of income.

It is important for me to know how old are you because I don't like bulling children, but now I know you are more or less of my age I will not feel bad about saying the truth as it is. :-) It is true that Russia have many many problems: Aids, doctors teaching that condoms don't work, salaries that don't allow you to live: so you have to do something illegal, extremely hight corruption, islamic terrorism... but let's be frank: this happens because the government is too week, and the government is too week because the taxes are too low. By the way, there are a few countries like russia in the sense of horrible place for living and very low taxes. Maybe our debate is a semantic problem. To help each other to clarify lets make a scale of unfairness from 1 to 7: 1.- Completely unfair. The situation deserves a revolution. 7.- Things are fair. People getting taxed: I would give 7, there is nothing wrong about having to pay taxes, it just determine your capacity to acquire things. Me having to pay higher percentage of taxes than poor people: I would give 6. Even if you pay higher percentage you will be still really wealth in comparison with the ones how pay less percentage. Me having a curable illness but not being able to pay the doctor or having an insurance company trying to avoid to pay my operation. I would give 1. That is totally unacceptable and make a government look like criminal agency. Taxing the wealth is not very unfair, governments not having enough budget to their basic functions is extremity unfair. I come from Spain, a country which until very recently had unlimited health care for every one, even for the ones who get inside the country illegally, just like Cuba. I will not accept to live in a country without universal health care. Talking about people becoming rich, how about the ones who work really hard and don't become rich? The way you talk about poor people: uneducated people who can't handle money is very interesting. Maybe they can't afford education. Or maybe you are right, maybe they are just evil, maybe we should just let them die or kill them. Is this what you are suggesting? I thought americans were good people, maybe I was wrong. Going back the the argument about cutting expenses: You only fire people when they produces less money than their salaries, if they produce you money, you can't fire them. You only get tax on your income (on the benefits), that is what makes your argument absurd. Plus we already talk about that in the first video, customers are the ones creating jobs, without customers there is no business. By the way, researches like me earn very little, but we give a lot to humanity because without us, innovation would not exist. Electricity is better than candles, and once you did the research you have the knowledge forever, and the whole humanity benefits from that, i'm not sure if we can say that about restaurants or armies. By the way, the army is a state institution, without taxes there is no army and they you get an invasion and end paying taxes to another country and getting nothing back from the foreigner government. Let me ask you a question: As you know, governments create money, so they can print as much as they need, so you could have a government which only prints money but don't charge any tax on their citizens. Do you think a government which don't charge taxes but prints money is more fair than a one who do both: printing more and taxing? Finally I leave you here the presentation of the darwinian economy, a brilliant book about economy which actually is written for american people. http://www.youtube.com... Again, please if you win the elections, do not cut the taxes to rich people, it is a huge mistake it will create great misery and drive america to the same place were russia is now.