Because poor people spend a larger percentage of their income on basic necessities?
Whats a shiv?
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Because poor people spend a larger percentage of their income on basic necessities?
we do it because we're nice and because we think that everyone deserves a decent life.
Wow, you're more hardkore about this than I thought. Do you really think that someone who may be using 60-70% of their income simply to survive should pay the same as someone who is using .05% to survive?
edit: Even the Fair Tax allows for this...
yeah, voluntarily. it's called charity
but to force that upon those that don't agree is wrong
oh please, you're exaggerating the idea of survival
it takes very little money to "survive". if you still have 30% disposable income you're far from truly impoverished
even the poorest person in america has it better than most of the world. so yes, they should have to pay the same percentage as anyone else
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it's not charity. when talking about taxation we're not talking about giving out money, we're just adjusting the burden so it is borne more fairly by all.
when "we do it because we're nice and because we think that everyone deserves a decent life" it's called charity
but you're suggesting that people who work harder should be required to pay for people that don't
that somehow people who got a good hand in life should be required to take care of those less fortunate even though it wasn't the fault of the wealthy
why should the burden be spread out?
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:thrawn: "because it can be" is not a reason, dude
why wouldn't we? because it's unfair to expect one person to support another against his will. it's unfair to tell a man that part of his hard work should go toward supporting another man that doesn't work as hard. you're taking away the effort that one individual put in and giving it to someone else that hasn't earned it
Do you have any money in your wallet/pocket/bank account?
I don't.. therefore you must give me some, because you have it and I don't.
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that's fine. i just think a flat income tax is bad because it doesn't allow for a similar provision regarding basic necessities.
understandable. we have different definitions on what qualifies as basic necessities. I believe it's limited to law enforcement, emergency services, national defense and a very few other things. others think that welfare, retirement, education, health care and housing are basic necessities that should be provided by the government
Isn't a shiv another word for a shank? aka a prisoner who makes a knife to slash or stab another prisoner using a toothbrush and razor.
that's true, but i was referring to things like food, shelter, transportation and communications as things that would be excluded from the fair tax up to a certain amount. i haven't seen the actual proposal though.