(03-30-2022 02:17 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(03-30-2022 02:04 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(03-30-2022 01:51 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(03-30-2022 12:37 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  We all enjoy the benefits that our tax dollars provide. I don't think it's fair that some people (both the very wealthy and the not-so-wealthy) receive these benefits for free.

But you DO think it fair that some should pay more for the same benefits?

Odd concept of fairness.

So two people go to a restaurant and order the same meal and get the same service, but to be "fair', one should pay 100X what the other pays? Because they went to college/started a business/won a lottery/saved their money/whatever?

What did the cardiologist do that made him more/less deserving than the convenience store owner?


One of the biggest objections I have with the graduated income is that this nebulous concept of 'fair" enters into it.

It's like we are a nation of schoolchildren saying "No fair".

Did you miss the part where I was lauding the consumption tax?

I am simply saying that we should avoid a situation where the very wealthy have avenues to pay no (or neglible) taxes.

I don't understand your restaurant analogy TBH.

Figures. it was an analogy where one person was billed more for the same stuff due to his wealth. Next time you go to pay for a good or service, but are asked to pay many times more than another person because you have more wealth, think of this. You have pre-approved the gouging.

WTF? Figures? I'm going to have to ask you again... did you miss the part where I was lauding the consumption tax?

I'm pretty sure that my tax rate is the very highest of that paid in the United States. I'm not super-excited about this fact and if I was more wealthy I perhaps would have a team that showed me the ways of skirting some of this tax responsibility.

I feel like you are responding to your liberal stereotype and not to my words (which is exactly what you always complain about).