Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
> To the other camp, "fair" means that everyone pays the same *percentage* 
> of their income for certain goods.  I pay X% of my income in taxes for 
> the benefit of good roads(1), and the Donald pays the same(2) X%.  Since 
> X is the same, it's "fair".

  Everyone having to pay a fixed % of their income as taxes would be
much fairer than how taxing works here. AFAIK there are indeed some
countries where there's a fixed % of income tax. Not here.

  If your income is very small your tax % could go as low as 12%. Ok,
there's nothing wrong with that: It's only fair that if someone has
very low income he isn't taxed so much. After all, he needs to survive.

  What I feel more unfair is the other extreme: If your income is
enormous, you can end up paying up to 60% of it as tax. (And this is
only the basic income tax. There are other mandatory payments involved
too. I have heard of rather amazing situations, where people get only
something like 20% of their whole income.)

  I believe that in many countries (such as the US) a 60% tax sounds
completely incredible and outrageous. But it happens here.

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