Flame — HabitableZone

Flame » in reply to Tom thinks that " nurturing the potential of the poor with public money is a bad use of the money."

Hardly.
SDAI-Tech1 — (archived)

It's about fairness.

If you tax others more, simply because they have more wealth, you immediately create an imbalance that opens up all sorts of punishments/privileges because sacrosanct human equality has been gutted from government.

If one can treat different citizens differently based on wealth, why not on race? Or nose size? Or sexual preference?

That's the problem.

If wealth is a measure than anything else is an equally valid measure for punishment/reward. That is why the founding fathers did not institute a "progressive" tax system. When each contribute equally and are punished equally - only then can such a society be truly just.

If money is to be spent for the poor, all who are taxed for such should be taxed equally. A flat tax is closer to justice than the progressive income taxes which punishes humans based on an arbitrary factor such as their income.

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