"It's discriminatory. It doesn't treat people fairly under the law." "Fairly" is begging the question. "Discriminatory" isn't necessarily a bad thing, and nee

"It's discriminatory. It doesn't treat people fairly under the law." "Fairly" is begging the question. "Discriminatory" isn't necessarily a bad thing, and needs to be further refined if it's going to be meaningful. Progressive taxation (in isolation) does not discriminate between people. It discriminates between dollars. My first dollar is taxed the same as your first dollar; my ten thousandth dollar is taxed the same as your ten thousandth dollar; my millionth dollar is taxed the same as your millionth dollar. It is true that my millionth dollar is taxed differently from my first dollar, and that is discrimination between dollars, but generally people don't hold "equal treatment of dollars" as a moral principle. "I can't imagine the arrogance necessary to think that you know how much to tax a certain segment of society relative to another." Roughly the same arrogance necessary to think you know how much to tax in the first place, or really any other decision making on that level.