re: #365 lostlakehiker

So I’m trying to understand your main point.

Do you think that it is unjust for someone making more money than 90% of his/her fellow citizens - and who enjoys a lifestyle in excess, materially, to probably 99% of the people who have ever walked the planet - to pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes?

It seems from your posts that you don’t think it would be more just for someone making $400,000 to pay a same percentage of their income as someone making 40K.

So, at some point, you have to reach a decision point in the real world. Given that there is a broad consensus that Bush’s tax cuts reduced revenue overall, and given that during a period of his tax cuts the income of the top income earners grew disproportionate to everyone else’s income, it seems that the current Republican policy platform is neither fiscally conservative nor “just.”

Do you disagree?