How does a flat tax where everyone pays the same rate after the first $50.000 of yearly income sound to you? That way really poor people pay nothing and people making something like $80.000 only pay tax on the last $30,000. Incredibly fair IMO.
Yeah…I don’t think the Democrats were exactly thrilled about Occupy Wall Street. Then again, neither were the Repubs.
However, the only politicians who are for progressive tax schemes seem to be the ones on the left fringe of the Democratic Party.
That being said, we need a third party that is truly for the 99%.