Flat Tax/Fair Tax: While Progressive tax systems are definitely gentler to the poor/middle class, any tax system that taxes people at different  rates isn't "fair". True, the rich would make out with a Flat Tax/Fair Tax, and in the past I was more against than for such, for 2 reasons I now favor the Flat Tax/Fair Tax: More and more folks are voting for their pocket rather than what's best for the country. To stop these irresponsible voting patterns, we need ALL people to have "skin in the game" - sorry if that hurts some folks but the strategy of trying to get the rich to pay for everything, while our deficit balloons, needs to end! Also, based on Obama Admin using the IRS as a tool to suppress/punish Cons, believe Dems/the IRS cannot be trusted - IRS needs to be abolished. Flat Tax/Fair Tax would allow for that! NOTE: There might still be a minimal requirement for an IRS like entity with the Flat Tax - but it'd be insignificant in the scheme of things, and have not real discretionary power.