Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-cad.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-cad!mlm From: mlm@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Michael Mauldin) Newsgroups: net.taxes Subject: Terminology - Flat, Fixed, Progressive Message-ID: <311@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 14:42:04 EST Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-c.311 Posted: Fri Mar 1 14:42:04 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 06:38:33 EST Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 17 Let's get it right, people! PROGRESSIVE an increasing percentage (e.g. Federal income tax). FIXED a fixed percentage (e.g. Penn. income tax, state sales tax). REGRESSIVE a decreasing percentage (e.g. US FICA over 38k). FLAT each person a fixed amount (e.g. Pgh Occ. tax $10 per person). The most popular is NOT a flat tax, but rather a fixed tax. ps: My vote is for fixed tax on citizens with explicit government subsidies for supporting low income people, rewarding people who install energy efficient heaters, etc. No corporate taxes (they just charge us, the customers, higher prices to pay for them anyway). Michael L. Mauldin (Fuzzy) Department of Computer Science Mauldin@CMU-CS-CAD.ARPA Carnegie-Mellon University (412) 578-3065 Pittsburgh, PA 15213