re: #291 Obdicut

Oh, okay.

So why is that an important figure, though? No matter what the tax rate is, that is always going to be true, whether it’s a flat tax or a progressive tax. Only a regressive tax would make that untrue.

So I’m just at a total loss as to what your point: Yes, someone who pays a million dollars in taxes pays more than someone who pays ten dollars in taxes. You’re simply stating a truism.

If anything, that shows how great the income and wealth disparity in this country has gotten.

So what were you attempting to prove by that?

I’m struggling with that, too. The guys with most of the money pay most of the taxes. Duh. But that doesn’t mean that the tax rates we have now are the right ones. Nor does it mean that the higher earners are owed some sort of giant thank you from everyone else, unless we think they achieved that status for us.