re: #148 Obdicut

It is a tax. That one benefits from that tax doesn’t mean that it’s not a tax.

I think the point is that the lower income taxpayer gets his contribution and more back from the government in fairly direct way. The wealthy contribute more than they get back directly.

The problem with this thinking is that it doesn’t account for the indirect benefits the wealthy enjoy. There’s no attempt to account for the benefit a business gains from a labor pool that is relatively healthy, decently educated and economically stable, for example.