Fairness, Taxes, GPA, and Redistribution

M.D. Rawlings

Classical Liberal
May 26, 2011
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By W.A. Beatty
April 28, 2012
American Thinker


. . . In "Devious Taxation," Williams says that instead of focusing on how the federal government has grown to 24% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), our attention has been diverted to the tax fairness demagoguery.

Williams cites 2009 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data and notes that 47% of Americans pay no federal income tax at all, while the top 1% of income-earners paid almost 37% of federal income taxes, the top 10% paid about 70%, and the top 50% paid nearly 98%.

He then asks, "What standard of fairness dictates that ... 47% of Americans pay nothing?" If almost half of Americans pay no income tax, why should they be concerned about increasing taxes and about tax rate fairness?

. . . Students who were "greedy" with their GPAs got a real-life lesson in redistribution of wealth, in what is "fair." Many leftist students think it's just fine to redistribute money from people who earned it, but it's not so fine to redistribute grades so that everyone can have the same GPA.

Young America's Foundation holds this contest every year to highlight the hypocrisy of the left's view on taxes.

. . . Obama, while speaking to students at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL, on April 10, 2012, said, "So these investments - in things like education and research and health care - they haven't been made as some grand scheme to redistribute wealth from one group to another ... this is not some socialist dream." Yet in 2008, candidate Obama told Joe the plumber, "I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

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