re: #312 cliffster

If 10% of the people are paying 85% of the tax burden, then they are already pulling weight. Maybe you think they should pull more, but it’s silly to say they are not.

Let’s extend this logic. Apparently, if everyone pays the same amount in taxes, then everyone is “pulling their weight.” No need for progressive taxation.

If someone makes $40k, they should pay, say, $10k in taxes. And so then, someone making $400 million should also pay, say, 10k. They’d both be “pulling their weight.”

One person pays 25% of their income in taxes.
The other person pays 0.000000025% of their income in taxes.

But they’re both “pulling their weight.”

“Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is toexempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometric progression as they rise”

Thomas Jefferson