Any tax on a persons income amounts to slavery and should be disbanded and nullified.

Sure. There are several different kinds of taxes as everyone knows; sales, property taxes, capital gains taxes, income taxes, payroll taxes, etc. Each of these is designed to target different groups of people in different ways. The sales tax, for instance is considered to be a regressive tax. The poorer you are, the harder it hits you. Everyone needs food, clothes, toothpaste, shampoo, etc. regardless of how much you make. The less you have, the more as a percentage of your income that you'll be paying on these things. This is an empirical fact; wealthier people spend less as a percentage of their income, and invest more. Therefore, the sales tax hits poorer people (at least as a percentage of income) than wealthier people. Someone living at the poverty line might spend 70 percent of their income on the necessities of life, all subject to the sales tax, while a millionaire might only spend 10 percent of his yearly income making it subject to the sales tax.

The logic behind a progressive income tax is that it counter-balanlances this naturally regressive sales tax. It doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense having the poor paying a larger portion of their income in taxes than the rich who are far better positioned to bear the tax burden.

Futhermore, there is a distinction which people have decided to draw between capital gains taxes (the money you make by investing money) and income taxes (the money you make by doing actual work). Capital gains taxes are taxed at 15 percent, while income taxes are almost invariably more, even for low income earners. It's no secret that many wealthy people make their fortunes through investment, and certainly they invest at a far higher rate than poor people. Therefore you're looking at a situation where someone super-rich can pay close to 15 percent on their income for the year (because most of their income comes from investment) while poor or middle class families could be paying 20-30 percent in income taxes. Again, a progressive tax structure would be designed to counter-balance the natural regressiveness of the capital gains system.

yea...cause the tariff system has worked out so well for us in the past...why don't we do a 3 tiered income tax system; 10%, 18%, 25%, and then do a a 30% capital gains tax and a 5% sales tax. The sale's tax would hit the poor the hardest, the capital gains tax would hit the rich the hardest, and the simple tiered system would be easy to understand and fair. No more write-offs, deductions, or loop-holes.

Originally the income tax was going to be just 1% and just from the very wealthy. Then it was 5% and was imposed on everyone working. Taxes creep. If you put in a 9% flat tax in just a few years it will be 9.99%. give it another decade and it will become 16.66%. Within another decade it will creep up to 19.99% and so on and so forth until the rich squeeze all of the value created by the working class right back out of the system that they have put into creation with the wave of a pen and a few keystrokes.