[PornoDoggy]

I have always thought that a flat perentage of any and all types of income with exceptions for absolutely nobody (including corporations) and nothing would be the most fair way. I don't have a problem with a floor beneath which someone pays nothing or a cap beyond which someone maxes out.

The problem with talking about taxes is the cornucopia of entities taxing you. Federal, state, local (school boards & college districts, road districts, sewer districts, hospital districts, etc., etc., etc.).

BTW ... unless the "welfare mutherfucker or drug dealer ... buying a $200 pair of tennis shoes" lives in Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, or Oregon, he is already paying taxes at a minimal rate of from 2.9% in Colorado up to 7.25% in California, with (in some cases) the aforementioned local entities often tacking more onto those totals.