Times are tough all over

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by DanaC

[Y]ou do realise, of course, that from my perspective the 'flat tax' system is a weapon of class war. . . Class conflict is an inherent part of a class based society. You guys may define class differently, but it is there. And the conflict exists when the needs of those classes collide and conflict.

I think the entire point of the American republic's (or republics') existence, economics-wise, is that at bottom "the needs of the classes" don't conflict. Everyone has to make a living, and that isn't open to dispute. Any differences of detail are usually differences of scale.