Dave wrote:



As a result of these regressive changes the average middle class
worker now pays a higher percentage of their income in taxes than does
the average millionaire, and the average billionaire pays an even
smaller percentage.



The tax system is unfair. But remember that about 30% of the
population pays zero tax at all.

You can't cut the taxes of those who don't pay them.

And you can't make the poor wealthy by making the wealthy poor.

A flat tax would be the most fair.

It would also be the most effective.