re: #398 Obdicut

It depends who you’re talking about. You said you wanted to see absolute dollar amounts. I do think it’s worthwhile to consider just how hard it is, how challenging to get by on $20,000, for example. I do think it’s worthwhile knowing that someone paid, say, $3,000,000 in taxes— but also to consider they have $20,000,000 in income— let alone wealth— afterwards.

There is never going to be fairness in the tax code. There is going to be what works, what takes into account actual human beings, and what we need.

And people barely scraping by aren’t good for any of us. General prosperity is a wonderful thing.

I agree. I do know how hard it is to get by on even larger amounts —$40,000 still qualifies for aid in some areas. And rightly so.

What I object to is the rhetoric that seems to have contempt for success. I do not think Prosperity, in and of itself, is immoral.