re: #161 cliffster

That’s better. The way it is positioned in campaigns, however, is not like that. It is class warfare in the campaigns. Also missed in all that is the fact that rich people do, in fact, have a right to the money they make. And taxing them is taking that right away. We do, as a society, have to give up some rights in order to live together. But those rights should be taken away with great care.

Money that we make, in this society, knowing ahead of time what taxes are on it, is not taking someone’s rights away. If the tax were on wealth, not on income, you’d be much closer to right. But taxation is on income; you know, in any given income year, what tax you’ll pay. It’s not a right taken away from you. The wisdom of various levels of taxation can be argued, but taxation is one of the fundamental structures of government.

The only reason that people are in a position to make money is because we have a stable, civil society. There is not, and never has been, a society where there was not a strong government where capitalism flourished in a stable way.

Discussions of taxation should not have anything to do with ‘fairness’. There is no method of taxation that’s fair. Taxation should be based on what works.