Wry Catcher
Diamond Member
- Banned
- #61
We're aware.. you bitch about it daily. You have yet to offer up any sane argument for taking well over 1/3 of a person's property.
A sane argument for a progressive income tax is it protects - or once protected - our Republic. If wealth is concentrated in a small minority, government representatives are esily influenced by money, promises and gifts.
In a short time great wealth will concentrate in the hands of the few, who will influence legislators and judges, civil servants and 'journalists' for advantage. At that point (and I believe we have reached that point) we have lost our Republic and have become a plutocracy.