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Like most things there are two sides to consider.
There are people who want a world where everyone is the same. To achieve this, they would tax higher and higher, the richer and richer you are, so that, ultimately, no matter how much you earned, you'd still only keep what the poorest guy got. We'd all be poor, money-wise, but the government would have so much money from taxes, that you wouldn't need to have money to pay for stuff like medical care, education, yadda, yadda.
The other side of the argument, is that not everyone works equally hard, or has the same ambition. There are dudes who like to sit on their butts all day, and don't see a problem with that, and there are others who are driven to do bigger, and better stuff, and to improve on themselves and their accomplishments over the course of their lives. These people take on more and more responsibility, and work quite hard. Should they get the same pay as the FUSH who thinks life is cool if he naps all day without the boss catching him? If the pay you keep is the same (because of taxes), no matter how hard you work, or how much you contribute, then there is no incentive to do better or work harder. Society is not better off, supposedly, when this happens. The old Soviet Union (which was the classic example of this situation, at least in many respects) had a saying: "They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work."
The answer lies somewhere in the middle: The ridiculously wealthy (especially those who have jobs that really don't deserve such pay) should pay *more* tax, but not so much as to squelch ambition. And the money from taxes, *should* be spent to help even out the burden for people who earn less, such that they can enjoy, as a right, the basic necesities of life beyond what the poorest salary should pay: Health care, education, food to prevent hunger, yadda, yadda.
The devil is in the details, and people of good faith argue where that middle ground should be, and where the line should be drawn. |
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I would love to see a flat tax, and that is directly proportional to every one. But it has to be everyone. And it should be just once, at the register when you buy new items. If it is used, then no tax. I think a flat tax in the range of 15% is very adequate.
My figuring is this: The Mormon Church almost requires its members to tithe. They tithe 10%, plus various other funds they pay into. This is one of the richest non-profit organizations on earth, and they only have a few million people, not the 8 million as advertised, because they count people who have left church. So that as a model shows the money would flow freely into the government at 17%. All people would benefit, all would pay. Fair and equal. Now quit the free money to the illegals who get food stamps, and reduced this and that, and the prok barrel stuff in congress, we would all do better. |
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