Quote Originally Posted by Spetulhu
How, exactly, would a flat tax rate hurt the rich and their tax jockeys? The truly rich get all kinds of opportunities for hiding away their income before moving on to taxation. Flat rate taxation would just make it easier for them if it affected them at all.
I didn't say it would hurt the rich.


I said it would hurt the tax jockeys. And by that, I mean the H&R Block and TurboTax industry: The zillions of tax attorneys, businesses, and software that is all a product of the public trying in vain to navigate this piece of crap income tax code we have.