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Progressive taxes are approximations of flat taxes that are based on utility rather than nominal dollars.
by pts101 16y ago
Progressive taxes are approximations of flat taxes that are based on utility rather than nominal dollars.
- lsc 16y agomaybe so. But even without the relationship you describe between what you pay and what you get, a progressive tax system still maximizes the government's income vs a poll tax. I'm just pointing out that even before you get to talking about what's fair or what's right, you simply could not support a government as expensive as ours on a poll tax. - so there is a reason why we have a progressive tax rate that has nothing to do with perceived fairness.