What giant steaming pile of shit. HOW? Who is forcing me to give them their money (I would be considered poor, btw)? The rich aren't fleecing anyone. People like you just don't like the bitter truth. They are smarter and work harder than you. THAT is why they are rich.
Again, taxing one group a higher rate just because they have more fits no definition of fair I have ever heard. I guess we need to talk about that word because you don't seem to have clue one about what that word means. A higher tax rate on the rich would be fair, for example, if they used benefits derived from tax dollars in equal proportions to what they pay. THAT is the definition of fair.
A fair tax system? Lucky you there is one called just that. The FAIR tax. No more tax on income, instead an across the board tax on consumption. It doesn't get any more fair than that. Imagine how are economy would boom without a payroll tax.
but you are not taxing any person at a higher rate...you are taxing all the income the rich person makes, up to their highest bracket, at the precise same rate as the person below them pay for that amount of money earned....
as example:
the rich person pays 10% on the first $10 grand or so made as the poor person pays 10% on the first 10 grand they made in taxable income....
the poor person or the middle class person or the upper middle class person pays ONLY 10% on about the first 10 grand, as DOES THE RICH PERSON.
YOU ARE NOT making the rich person pay more than any other person in that tax bracket that their taxable income falls?
and so on and so forth for every tax bracket the rich person's income falls.
They are NOT being taxed their whole wad earned at this higher tax bracket, they are taxed THE SAME for all money earned as everyone else...and only for the amount of money that falls into the highest tax bracket, are they being taxed at the 35% rate or the highest rate?
soooooooo, why do you think the progressive tax system is sooooo terribly unfair Bern???
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So even though we have what everyone agrees is a progressive system it isn't actually progressive? That is the richer you are you really don't pay a greater percentage of your gross income in taxes? Tell me another one care.
sure they do, for the very highest bracket of income, they do pay more....for ALL THE MONEY THEY EARNED in the other 3-4 tax brackets below the highest, they pay THE SAME tax rate as EVERYONE ELSES taxable money earned in those brackets.
When the middle class person starts earning enough money to move up a bracket, that income in that bracket with be taxed equally, for him and for the wealthiest guy, with income in that tax bracket range.
I do not see it unfair at all....for a progressive system.
It could be sooooooooooo much worse....it could be that when you enter a higher bracket, that they tax ALL of your money earned at that high tax rate!
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