Why do you feel that people who worked harder than you to get their money value it any less than you do?
For me the reverse is more intuative. Those who value it more have more of it. Those who value it less don't bother wasting their time acquiring so much of it.
ronimacarroni wrote:[]That's not to say that these people don't pay any tax. they do[/]
But they don't
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/04 ... oliticians
Also progressive taxation is fair.
To someone who earns 20k a year paying 5k means a lot more than someone who earns 1 million and pays 400k.
Well the guy who earns 1 million probably puts a bulk of his money on stocks so he ends up paying capital gains tax rates anyways...
Don't be so ridiculous man.
Each GS employee pays his tax same as everyone else.
Each shareholder too.
Their economic endeavours are as taxed as the next mans. Plus they have a much higher proportion of high earners than usual, which means they pay much more than usual.
If they make a profit together as a business, they then pay
extra tax on top of what everyone else typically pays.
Progressive taxation is not in any way fair.
If you pay 5K in taxes and I pay 150k in taxes, what is so fair about that?
Did the govt provide 145k more of services to me than it did you?
Lets take me as an example. I don't earn 25k a year. I earn 5K a year.
So I pay less tax.
Why do I only earn 5K a year? Because that's all I want to. It's my choice.
I could have gone into the city and chosen to work on the stock exchange.
I could have chosen to sign on with an emergency plumber and work through the nights.
I chose not to.
I could still be teaching or dancing or making TV shows. I choose not to.
I could even sign on for govt financial support. I choose not to.Because I choose to be comparatively lazy and unproductive, do I use less govt services than anyone else?
WTF has the amount of money I earn have to do with how much anything costs to provide?
Only this, the govt can't take so much from me because I have nothing of value for it to take.
But if you who worked much harder than me, resultingly acquire more wealth than me, the govt can take more of it off you than it can me.
What's fair about that?
I'm more lazy than you, so you have to pay extra?
Seems like a pretty obviously bogus sense of fairplay to me.