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View Poll Results: What should paying one's "fair share" mean with regard to taxes?
Flat Tax: Everyone pays the same proportional tax rate on earnings above a defined minimum	9	40.91%
Head Tax - Everyone pays the same flat dollar amount regardless of income level	0	0%
Progressive - Your taxes are driven by the "bracket" you are in	10	45.45%
Fairness cannot be defined anywhere in life, so politicians using this phrase are clueless	3	13.64%
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04-04-2012, 12:29 PM

Danzig

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Originally Posted by joeydb

Yeah - won't happen.

Why would politicians treat the budget and spending problem like the math problem that it clearly is?? Emotional heartstrings play so much better than addition and subtraction in the media.

no, it won't any time soon. and the longer it's ignored, the worse the eventual fix will be. but current pols won't have to worry about that in the future, they're just worried about their seats now.

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