Taxes for the Rich and the Poor

I was raised in a middle class family and now have a middle class family of my own and I understand fully what it takes to keep up with the bills. I have a problem with exempting any group from paying their fair share for government services because they begin to believe that any service or subsidy from the government is free. Once you believe that any product or service is free, or a bargain, you will overuse it and stop worrying about the quality.

This is where we are at now with our government, the poor don't feel they should have to pay any taxes and the rich pay the politicians to put in loop holes and pay the lawyers and the accountants to exploit the loop holes. This allows the poor and rich to feel they are getting something for nothing and middle class feel that they are being screwed.

Bad financial decisions should have consequences or one will never learn to stop wasting the money they have.

Businesses never have paid taxes; they just pass the taxes on to their customers (us). Corporate taxes and subsidies allow an opening for the government to show favoritism to the companies that help them and to punish the companies that do not support them. The customer should be the one to determine whether that company's product is worth buying at the price it takes to make the product.
We must establish a truly fair way to collect revenue for government services and an individual consumption tax seems the best way to do that. There must also be a way to more evenly distribute government services to local communities and I am working on that one.