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Message: [QUOTE="BelgoSuisse, post: 1733294, member: 30299"] I don't think this discussion is really going anywhere so this will be my last comment. Considering that most other taxes are typically either flat or regressive, I don't understand why you find it problematic that the income tax is just sufficiently progressive to ensure the poorest in your country don't end up paying a higher percentage of their income as taxes than the richest. And yes, that requires negative income tax rates for the poorest Americans, but i don't understand why this is a problem per se. Why should we isolate this particular tax and make a fuss about it while what really matters is the overall tax burden? Now you can keep quoting more and more numbers about the income tax, and I can keep quoting more and more about the overall tax burden, but it won't really move us any closer to an agreement. [/QUOTE]