"Fairness" is not simply a personal judgment for them, but a call to apply corrective force.
What numbers would be "fair" on the right side of that chart? How would they be arrived at? How would an all-powerful "fairness" authority command that a star basketball player will make no more than a certain multiple of what a math teacher makes? Or whatever arbitrary number they arrive at for that pairing and thousands of others?
Some national committee of some kind? Who sits on it? In a world where those who don't have a lot of money have always greatly outnumbered those who do, do we do it by vote?
What level of control is enough? How much punishment of success and rewarding of failure until the scales "balance?"
"Reward" implies somebody empowered to pass out rewards. "Fairness" in an economy implies somebody empowered to define "fair." And of course, the overriding premise is that all wealth is the property of those who are empowered to take it from those they target, and redistribute it to recipients of their choice.
Who gets to be God, Robert? The dictators, or the mob?
And more importantly, there have been many, many attempts to "equalize" the wealth of nations in this world. How well have they worked? Did all the citizens of those societies end up "middle class?" Or were the results a bit different?
Cripes, how many ways can people support collectivist economics while continuing to pretend that such ideologies don't even exist?
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The problem with defending markets here is that too many people can't think outside the "managed economy" box.
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- So Romney's paying...
- Romney paid over $6 million in Federal taxes in the past two years.
- Re: Romney paid over $6 million in Federal taxes in the past two years.
- Just for fun
- Be careful of the terminology. (EDITED FOR CORRECTION)
- One more time if you don’t mind
- define:progressive tax rate, define:regressive tax rate
- What?
- Re: define:progressive tax rate, define:regressive tax rate
- You do love that red herring, don't you?
- About the definitions, you were right and I was wrong.
- And I spoke too soon
- Re: And I spoke too soon
- Yeah, those look like "my" numbers.
- The problem with defending markets here is that too many people can't think outside the "managed economy" box.
- Yeah, those look like "my" numbers.
- Re: And I spoke too soon
- And I spoke too soon
- About the definitions, you were right and I was wrong.
- You do love that red herring, don't you?
- I don't mind wealthy people paying more taxes than people who aren't. I never did.
- define:progressive tax rate, define:regressive tax rate
- One more time if you don’t mind
- Be careful of the terminology. (EDITED FOR CORRECTION)
- Tax rates of presidential candidates
- Romney paid over $6 million in Federal taxes in the past two years.