Warp wrote:
> 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.
> 

it must be the medical insurance ;-o

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