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How taxes work. by subbywan2007-07-03 16:24:23
  The dichotomy I would like to see resolved WRT tax by romandas2007-07-03 17:30:32
    How are you 'punishing' the wealthy? by Arachnid2007-07-03 17:33:56
      Taxing someone higher than someone else by romandas2007-07-03 17:43:14
        Not doing that is punishing the poor by Arachnid2007-07-03 17:55:37
          No, it's being fair. by romandas 2007-07-03 18:04:58
If I have the capability to earn more money, but all that does is "earn" me the right to give that money away, why make more? It removes incentive to work and improve.

You made a good, ideal point earlier. The problem is, as it stands, our system is not ideal. Not even close. 50% of the top tax brackets may well be 'disposable income', but it still rightfully belongs to the person who earned the money, not to the government to reallocate *my* (or any other person's) resources as someone else/government official sees fit.
At the same time, people starve. Inequality on both ends.
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            Unless the tax rate is 100% by Arachnid2007-07-03 18:08:51
              They don't, here. by esbita2007-07-03 18:15:43
                They don't what? (n/t) by Arachnid2007-07-03 19:05:26
                  They don't pay any income tax. by esbita2007-07-03 20:48:57
                Yep... by tepidpond2007-07-03 20:22:23
              Actually, the entire monetary system.. by romandas2007-07-03 18:21:41
                Without a government, you don't have a single by Arachnid2007-07-03 19:08:02
                  How is a flat tax *rate* serfdom? by esbita2007-07-03 19:44:06
                    He was also saying that deducting more from those by Arachnid2007-07-03 20:02:18
                      It's simple common sense. by esbita2007-07-03 20:45:40
                        You're not looking at it system-wide. by Arachnid2007-07-03 20:49:34
                          How many of those people... by esbita2007-07-03 20:58:47
                            That's getting perilously close to the 'trickle by Arachnid2007-07-03 21:14:41
                              No argument the trickle-down effect isn't by subbywan2007-07-03 21:18:16
                              Because you've been arguing... by esbita2007-07-03 21:29:18
                                I think our conflict here... by esbita2007-07-03 21:30:19

 

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