Who says the rich have to pay taxes at a higher rate?


Maxprop wrote:
Democrats, generally.


Or anybody with an impartial & accurate view of the matter.


No where else in society do the rich have to pay more for things like
cars, bread, etc. The cost is the same for everyone for the same product.


True, but the rich have to pay less in proportion to their
means.


Right, which makes a federal sales tax more equitable than an income tax.


Possibly.


How come you want to deny the poor their chance to pay the same?


An odd question. Most people, poor or otherwise, would love the opportunity
to pay less in taxes. But to continue the discussion, the impoverished and
working poor probably should pay a lesser proportion of their meager income
in taxes.

You liberal Demcrat you!


... However the rich should not pay a proportionately greater
percentage of their income in taxes.

Why not? If they can live a far more luxurious lifestyle on
a lesser proportion of their income, *and* they have greater
representation in our government (how many poor people are
there in Congress?), *and* they enjoy greater services &
benefits from the gov't and from our socio-economic system
generally, then it is only fair that they pay the greater
portion of the burden in taxes.



... Once again a federal sales tax would
solve this issue.

No it wouldn't, unless it was exhorbitant.

... If a rich dude wishes to buy a Bentley Continental, he'll
pay more in sales tax than a dude of modest means purchasing a Ford Focus.

ANd he'll use up more public resources when he drives it. So
the tax should be proportionally more, not just numerically.

But if they both buy Ford Focuses, they pay the same. That's fair.


But what if the rich person doesn't buy a car at all, but
instead forms a corporation to buy him a car tax-free?


The poor should pay more in taxes. They consume more government services
and individually contribute less to society. The poor should pay their
fair share too!


Quintessential Rush Limbaugh--right from his book, "The Way Things Ought to
Be." You might also have noticed that this proclamation was in jest; that
he really didn't advocate taxing the poor proportionately more than others.

How can you tell when he's joking?


His point was that the poor consume more of the federal budget than the
rich, but that simply isn't true. Corporate welfare, roads, bridges, and
other infrastructure built to accommodate big business, tax abatement,
forgiven federal grants and loans to businesses, inflated/bloated federal
contracts to big business, and so on ad nauseum, make individual welfare
(includes Medicare and Medicaid) seem small by comparison. Of course it's
difficult to assess the final cost of such things because they *generally*
contribute to increased production, more jobs, and those jobs pay income
taxes.


By golly, you are a closet Bolshevik.

DSK