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Originally Posted by markolas
I guess I'm what you're calling a "true liberal." 
You know, I always thought it was common sense that the more money you make, the more you should have to pay (in terms of the percentage of your salary)...it really baffled me when I realized that there are people in this world who believe that the fact that they make more money means that they're entitled to *keep* more. Because somehow financial success equals virtue?
It's not about wanting to "punish" the rich. It's about those with having more being obligated to help those who have less. The more I think about it, the more this Buddhism thing really seems to be in my blood, or something.  |
Well, you do pay more money - just the same percent. A person making 100,000 would pay $15,000 and a person making $55,000 would pay $8,250. That makes sense to me
Again, I think it has to be this way because the sliding scale with deductions is just fraud laden and will continue to be that way.