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Robbing someone of 70% of their income is way more aggravating and profoundly totalitarian than a simple progressive tax. It's one thing to grant a small share
by geezerjay 8y ago
Robbing someone of 70% of their income is way more aggravating and profoundly totalitarian than a simple progressive tax. It's one thing to grant a small share of your income to the state in order to keep social institutions running, but it's an entirely different thing if the state robs you off the majority of your total income for no reason at all.
In a free and democratic society, a citizen has the right to the fruit of his labour, not just to a small fraction of what he worked for.
- dragonwriter 8y agoYou seem to be responding to something other than the post yours is attached to, but: > Robbing someone of 70% of their income is way more aggravating and profoundly totalitarian than a simple progressive tax. A 70% top marginal rate isn't taxing (much less “robbing”) 70% of your income, unless your income is literally infinite. Also, the top marginal rate was at or above 70% for every year from 1936 through 1980, yet for some reason those 44 years aren't usually considered a “profoundly totalitarian” period in US history.