The government likes to manipulate behavior by providning deductions and incentives. They'd have to stop doing that if there was a flat tax.

Its not intrinsically unfair though, everybody would pay an equal portion of what they make.

If just your family makes it to the future, won't your children be forced to hump their siblings?

Nope, we can always find poor peasant scum to hump.

Then shouldn't you care that some of them make it to the future too?

Not especially. When I say "make it" I dont mean exist.

Then shouldn't you care that some of them exist in the future?

Not especially.

Then you must not care much for your own family after all.

Yes I do.

No you don't.

Yes I do.

FUCK! Taxes! I need to get on that shit.

Then you should care about the well being of others, too. It doesn't seem wise to assume there will always be other people in the world no matter what, in this age of nukes and bird flu and whatnot.

well i dont care about others, you can all go get fucked with radiation and bird flu for all i care. i jusr care about me and my loved ones. period.

What if your children want children of their own someday?

They will have to find one of the stragglers of the rest of society. Not really my problem.

The important thing here is that I did actually get my taxes done.... crisis averted.

What if there are no stragglers left?

The odds of my family being the only survivors are so small that its not worth any concern.