Amos commented:


Anyone in the middle class would as well, McGrath. It is not impossible, if you make only 30,000/yr to spare $4500 -- difficult, yes.

Amos, as I read the original proposal earlier in the thread, that 15% would include not only income tax but property taxes, sales taxes (in the USA, 5%, 6%, 8% and more right there), various taxes on utilities, dog license taxes, automobile license taxes, and more, many of which are what might be called "invisible taxes", which we often don't think of.

Limiting all of those to 15% would be a great boon to almost all of the populace. To get to keep 85% of our income, free of any taxation, would feel great! But see my last paragraph, below.

It would, of course, not be a "progressive" tax, so that Bill Gates, Donald Trump, and their ilk would be enchanted.

Limiting the total of all taxes to 15% of the GDP would, of course, severely limit the scope of all government, high and low, which might be enchanting to Libertarians, but the rest of us would soon, I think, be rather disenchanted with the whole business and want our lost governmental services back, even despite our higher effective income.

Dave Oesterreich