Whats Fair When it Comes to Taxes?

[SBXVII]

At this point... I don't even know any more. I've always felt a "Flat Tax" would be good because everyone would have to pay the same % of what they earn. There would be no complaining about how the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class is what runs this country.

Then I've felt everyone has to eat so make a "Food tax". Everyone gets hit equally. Same for the most part with a "Gas tax". Everyone who drives gets hit equally.

I'm not a smoker and hardly a drinker but what pisses me off more is when they want to raise tobacco tax as if that will solve our problems. Lets make the smokers pay for everything. Another was VA's stupid idea a few yrs ago to attack the people who get DUI's. The Gov. had this brain storm that it costs like 60 mill to repair VA's roads and on average there was "X" number of drunk drivers a year and by taxing them extra VA would make the 60 mill easily. They reduced everyones taxes figuring the drunk drivers would carry the load, but most Judges didn't think the law was fair so they started throwing DUI cases out of court. VA quickly fell 60 mill in the hole. lol. Then after it was challenged in VA's courts it was considered unconstitutional. All the extra tax that drunk drivers paid had to be repaid back to them by the state. lol.