The Importance of Progressive Taxes

I think it's appropriate to shout people down from time to time. I'm not sure that I agree with that, but that's as close as I can come to a moral argument. So now you're using a word that Clark didn't use progressive. He said graduated tax scheme. And instead of approaching this from the perspective of the rich, which you just did, I'm going to approach it from the other end of the spectrum and think about the poor. But typically proponents of flat taxes will say something like look, we should have a flat tax, it should be X percent. That itself is a graduation of a kind.