Gotta Pay your Fair Share

[Gandalf]

Everyone should pay their fair share. That seems something so self evidently true its logic a child can understand.

BUT the one thing no one ever really explains:

What is fair and who decides what is and what isn't?

 

[hog88]

Everyone should pay their fair share. That seems something so self evidently true its logic a child can understand.

BUT the one thing no one ever really explains:

What is fair and who decides what is and what isn't?

It seems like it's always the one who won't decides who does and how much.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Everyone should pay their fair share. That seems something so self evidently true its logic a child can understand.

BUT the one thing no one ever really explains:

What is fair and who decides what is and what isn't?

In 2021, 57% of US households paid no federal income taxes. I wonder which party those 57% mostly voted for.

 

[Gandalf]

In 2021, 57% of US households paid no federal income taxes. I wonder which party those 57% mostly voted for.

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”
~Alexander Fraser Tytler (maybe) 1747 – 1813

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Everyone should pay their fair share. That seems something so self evidently true its logic a child can understand.

BUT the one thing no one ever really explains:

What is fair and who decides what is and what isn't?

Actually that is easy. As long as the same tax rules are applied to EVERY citizen, everyone shall pay what they 'owe' with respect to those rules. The rules should be the same for everyone. Isn't it the left that is always crowing about equal outcomes? The current progressive tax code is inherently unfair. But it is by design to do a couple of things. One is to always have a lever with which the government can continue to divide average Americans. Second is to ensure that the poorest of us will always buy into the lie that the government gives a flying **** about them, but because they are stupid enough to believe that, it makes the first thing that much easier. If they wanted 'fairness' they would institute a flat tax based on a percentage of ALL income received. And the added thing should be that if you do not pay into the system, you do not get to vote on how things that you do not contribute to are implemented.