re: #326 Talking Point Detective

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.”

Thomas Jefferson

Everybody knows Jefferson was a commie.