A flat candy rate seems fair to me.
Everyone comes and gets all the candy they want and then give a flat percentage of that candy to those who can't afford it or walk or have some other issues limiting them from candy.
The fact that some can collect the most candy and have to give back less percentage wise is an abomination and has nothing to do with the term fair.
This guy is a twirp
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 11169418 Does that not give incentive to try harder? Plus like I said earlier 3 bags getting 15% taken is still more total than 1 bag losing 30%
Of course there is an incentive to try harder.
If I am making a wimpy 10 bars of candy an hour and the candy monster comes and takes 30% I am left with 7 bars to do with what I like.
If I am making 100 bars/hour and the monster comes and takes 30% I am left with 70 bars to do with what I like.
Therefore the more candy bars I make the more it benefits me and the more it benefits my country
The problem is, we have too many candy hoarders that have so much candy they are forced to hide it in their pockets. They even move it into other countries because they don't want to pay the same 30% as everyone else.
Heck they are even willing to pay people tons of candy to overlook their candy when it's audit time.
The bag solution you provide is a bit off, but still fits. The worst way to measure candy is by the bag full. 15% of a pillow case is way more than 15% of a plastic grocery bag. What some people try to do is put all their good candy into a smaller bag so when the monster comes he can't take all of the good candy.
Flat tax is the only thing that makes any sense at all.
Imagine this same experiment where you only took 10% from a bag filled with candy and took 30% from a bag half full.
This is the problem with the current economic state of this country.
