In my example the $100,000 was salary. When you wrote: "I said it was unfair to their owners. Consider your hypothetical business owner. Out of the $100k in p

In my example the $100,000 was salary. When you wrote: "I said it was unfair to their owners. Consider your hypothetical business owner. Out of the $100k in profits, the business pays perhaps $20k. The business owner then pays another $15k. But then people trying to score political points complain that he is getting away with something, and paying only $15k on $80k (19%). I think that's unfair." I thought you were talking about salary. Sorry for the confusion. I can't think of an example where it makes sense to say, "that isn't fair to your cell phone". I can think of lots of examples where it makes sense to say, "that isn't fair to cell phone providers [companies]".