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Old 09-04-2012, 12:57 PM  
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Originally Posted by sperbonzo View Post
Or just use sales tax. Then as rich people spend huge amounts, they will pay huge amounts, poor people don't buy as much, so they don't pay as much.




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They already do this.





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Originally Posted by davethedope View Post
Well, it depends on what you mean by equal .

If you mean, like a flat income tax, that's absurd.

If you mean, the same as in same rate, or percent of income, that's reasonable, but it would only seem to be "fair" or "equal", but it wouldn't be.
You went to school, opened up a business worked very hard and made a decent amout of money.

I dropped out of the same school, sat home or whatever, collected welfare, or maybe just went and got a decent job working in a factory.

Please explain why it's fair that we pay a different amount to the government? We both were born here, we both went to the same school....
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