by Bruce Allen

Created on: August 04, 2009   Last Updated: August 05, 2009

The money system for thousands of years has always been designed as a means or medium of exchange for services performed or goods. Had the U.S. money system not been allowed to be grossly perverted by (natural law) laissez faire economics, we would not be having this debate right now. As we speak, central bankers making decisions affecting our money system still believe in this supposed "law of the jungle" financial system where any kind of make money for doing nothing scheme goes. If we had strict federal laws in place governing the money supply, open central bank practices and more democratic and open processes as to how the money supply expands and contracts in this country, a flat tax could work. This would also require a population that really had a firm grasp on reality, which ours does not.

At present, the argument for a flat tax is built simply on the psychotic belief that:

1. Greed is good. Greed is why our society flourishes.

2. I'll never have enough when I make over $250,000 a year, always at the expense of the common man. It's not fair that I should have to pay everyone else's share.

3. I can create any kind of make money for doing nothing racket to con people out of their life savings and law enforcement shouldn't care. The government has no business stopping me from screwing over millions of decent folks if I want to.

Let's assume number one was correct on any account. As you can see, our society does not flourish presently. Maybe 1 of 10,000 people flourish who make over $250,000. If humans were able to stop when taking more meant destroying everyone and everything else, greed might be good. The opposition stands 100% corrected.

In point two, the main argument here is $250,000 is not enough for me. The tax rate should be the same for me as it is for someone making $50,000. I guess us making $50,000 a year would like to know why you would complain about paying more taxes to a country and a government that allowed you to make that kind of money in the first place, if it benefited other people in the country.(the same people that buy your product or service, that made your $250,000 a year possible.) I of course would stand corrected, if the government used this money inefficiently, which is not always the case.

If you are ignorant and confused enough to believe point three, then you must also believe the government has no business stopping someone from breaking in your home whilst you are away on vacation and stealing your life savings. If you believe the law of the jungle should apply here, and you seeking justice on your own, I'd advise you to read up on the american mafia. Hmm... Gee I wonder why federal law cracked down so hard on the mafia?!

Democratic laws and governments are why societies flourish. Not greed,or the law of the jungle. Whether you like it or not, life on planet earth is a mutual relationship. The rich cannot survive without the poor and vice versa. In a true democracy, everyone has enough.

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