I’m not really advocating for anything. I’m saying that some people say “these people making a lot of money are benefitting more from society, they should pay m

I’m not really advocating for anything. I’m saying that some people say “these people making a lot of money are benefitting more from society, they should pay more” and other people say “actually they deserve to keep what they get” and we all argue and vote and come up with a system that everyone can mostly live with. Sure, it’s arbitrary, but so is the flat tax percentage you’re talking about. Tons of laws are arbitrary. Speed limits aren’t some emergent property of the universe, or etched onto stone tablets by Adonai himself, but that doesn’t mean we should let people do 90 in a school zone.