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Well, they&#8217;re back to talking about the flat tax idea.The idea is that everybody, rich and poor, should be taxed at the same rate. Sounds fair, right? Like heck it is. If it was fair, would you really hear the rich pushing the idea so hard?The same percentage of your paycheck for everybody isn&#8217;t so fine for the poor, or even the middle class. It&#8217;s a stinker of the first magnitude.For the sake of argument, let&#8217;s use 10 percent tax. Suppose you make $25,000 a year. Your tax bill would be $2,500. That&#8217;s a pretty good hit. You may have to put off replacing that old clunker you&#8217;re driving. Now suppose you make $250,000. You might have to cancel plans for that skiing trip to the Alps, but you&#8217;ll still have $225,000 to live on. Now what if you make $2,500,000 a year? Your tax bill would be $250,000. What would you have to give up? Not much, not at two and a half million a year.Do you understand why it&#8217;s not really a fair system of taxation? Oh, for the rich, it&#8217;s a great solution. They get to save tons of money that they could then spend on, on what? Job creation? Are you kidding? The only jobs that would create is more pool boys and lawn care workers. Simplifying the tax code is definitely a must-do operation. There are far too many loopholes that allow far too many folks to not have to pay their fair share. And when I say &#8220;fair share,&#8221; I mean that Americans should pay according to their ability to pay. To do otherwise only broadens the gulf between the rich and the poor.Look, we need people to be rich. The more the merrier.What we don&#8217;t need is more poor.Ed ColeClarks Summit

Letter to the Editor: Flat tax proposal called ‘stinker of the first magnitude’