Taxes

The founding fathers arranged for the Federal Goverment to levy taxes to pay the debts, provide for the common Defense, and the general Welfare of the United States.  Article 1, Section 8.  Our problem is that not all citizens pay such tax.  In a country of free people, enjoying all the benefits of such freedom ALL citizens should contirbute.  The tax rate must be the same for all citizens, perhaps as low as 10%, but every dollar of income should be taxed at the same rate.  By doing this citizens have a vested interest in what Government does.  Now our system allows almost half of our population to pay nothing while living on someone else's hard labor.  Bad system!