[gyardley]

Read my comment again, where I said "I'm not saying a progressive income tax isn't necessary..."

How do you get "are you saying that even a flat tax is unacceptable?" out of that, given that I said exactly the opposite?

The issue is entirely with the word 'fair' and the rhetoric around 'fair share'. Progressive income taxes are not remotely fair by any sane definition of the word, whether they're necessary or not.