"i'd say you haven't the faintest idea what the term "flat tax" means. what you describe is the progressive taxation that penalizes success, inhibiting growth for the sake of some illusory concept of "fairness". while you may deny it, what you are really saying is "steal from the rich to give to the poor" and your reasoning is based on the same tired rhetoric of envy that all of modern liberalism is based on. you equate the accumulation of wealth with evil and seem to see some inherent nobility in poverty."

The problem with that statement is you are assuming people that make millions do so ethically. Very far from the truth. No one makes that kind of money who aren't either screwing there employees, screwing there customers or doing both.
Thats why I too favor the gradiated flat tax. No one needs a million dollars a year to live comfortably. I'm against taxing businesses because that just drives up the price of products for us consumers. All of this would probably be irrelevant if we just had some sort of control over congressional spending. If we could get congress to quit pissing money away on worthless programs there would probably plenty of money to go around.