Reform to a flat tax

A flat tax may seem "fair", the wealth gap is far to wide to be treating someone barely at or above the poverty line the same as someone with a substantial income each year. There are far too many loopholes for the rich and wealthy individuals and corporations.

If the government makes the poor and the rich pay the same amount of taxes, the poor will be unfairly targeted with too much money that they cannot afford

While on the surface a flat tax treats everyone equally the reality is that the top percentages of the population should give more of a percentage than the people in the lower percentiles of society. A flat tax would likely leave the poor paying slightly more tax and the wealthy to end up writing more of it off anyways. Progressive taxation is needed so that society can move towards true equalization.