(Yesterday, 09:02 PM)The Drifter Wrote: OK Liberals, just tell me what is your "Fair Share" of what someone else earned...... And why we should Tax the rich more?????

Anyone who argues this in terms of fairness is either stupid or thinks you're stupid.
A flat tax would be "fair", assuming all income was earned, but a lot of income is unearned, suggesting that there is unfairness before taxation that won't go away after taxation.

The simple answer of why the rich should be taxed more is simply margins. (a) They will miss their next dollar a lot less than a poor person, (b) increasing their rate by a small margin gives bigger returns than increasing a poor person's rate by a small margin, and © they are clearly benefiting more, in terms of security and quality of life, from our system than the poor are, ergo, they have more to lose if that system goes sideways.

Those arguments aren't great, I know, but they're at least better than arguing about fairness.

Social security, Medicare, and debt interest are simply growing too fast, faster than tax revenue, something has to be done.
All of the solutions are hard.
Pick your hard.

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