What is it that makes people feel that taxing the rich so much more is fair?

Question

Did you know according to the tax code if you make over 75,000 a year you're considered in the top 25%. And you pay 75% of the tax burden. How is this "fair"? Does the government do anything special for them? Do they get 2 votes?

Answer 1

It's not fair but you can't exactly tax the poor. There really is nothing fair or efficient about the USA. We pay more in taxes and fees then in many European countries. The matter is that people that make 80k pay 20% any thing over this and it's 33%. So what is the alternative?

Answer 2

Consider that the first income tax (1913) was 1% above $3,000 yearly income and 6% on amount over $500,000.  Needless to say, few earned enough to pay taxes so it has always been a "tax the rich" system; rightly so.

A "poor" person lives day-to-day.  10% of his salary means he can't make it.  A "rich" man can still live comfortably even if you take 50% of his salary.  Somehow I think forcing the poor to live on even less isn't quite fair either.

Answer 3

because we don't respect the bourgeoisie like u

Answer 4

Nah it isnt fair. Problem is, a guy making 7.00 at mcdonalds cant pay more taxes.  He can barely eat.

Answer 5

People who don't have alot of money think it is fair because they think because a rich person has more money they should pay more money. What an average person fails to realize is that not all rich people were born rich. There are alot of rich people who have worked hard, studied, and make the right financial choices to have the money they have. Why should any person be penalized because they have worked hard to be were they are at financially in their life!

Answer 6

It really is a shame. America was founded as a place of equality, where someone can come and make millions. We are the greatest country in the world, and "progressive" interest will stop at nothing to turn us into a quasi-European welfare state. Those are some pretty harsh words, and I'll get many-a thumbs down, but it's the truth.

Progressive taxation does nothing but reinforce the thought that we're all different.

The whole idea of progressive taxation is based on nothing more than fiscal jealousy. Supporters say that "everyone, despite how much they make, must have a tax burden that hits them as much as the bottom bracket is it". In other words, a person making $200,000 must be hit as hard by income taxes as a person making $15,000. That's hardly the reason why they support it (in America at least).

It's all about fiscal jealousy. The idea that "if I can't have it, no one can". It's an asinine thought process.

The liberal, democrats, and so called progressives can't stand that some people make more money than other people.

They point out that "the vast majority of the wealthy people either didn't work for their money or they had a tremendous amount of help from their daddy's connections." Never mind the fact that almost 90% of millionaires in the U.S. are first generation, meaning they built that wealth without daddy's help.

Wealth building also takes a certain kind of person. The typical millionaire drives a 3-4 year-old car, invests, has a good amount of self-discipline, has a household budget, they didn't get rich quick, they don't gamble or play the lottery, and they don't buy mansions that could hold 300 elephants.

People who are jealous about not being rich are usually the ones who play the lottery, buy as much house as they can barely afford, buy new cars, and go out to eat way too often to show people that they have money. Most actual millionaires aren't concerned about letting people know about their wealth.

So that's my opinion. The left collectively thinks that the successful have a moral obligation to take care of the less successful, and the less successful have an abnormally large sense of entitlement.

It's really troubling that a large part of the country have become so jealous and bitter that they think that people don't deserve what they earn and that we have to take it away for the greater good.

Hope this helps!

Answer 7

Trouble is,that isn't rich. that is lower middle class.

The rich have tax shelters and pay no taxes.

We need a flat tax with NO tax shelters allowed

Answer 8

Dollar for Dollar, they do NOT pay MORE in taxes....Which means that it is the poor and middle class (quickly becoming the POOR middle class) that have to deal with losing their money in taxes.  Anything over something like $120,000 is not taxed income for the rich.  So, the complaining that they are not getting a fair deal is not exactly true.

Answer 9

Our youth has been brought up with the mentality of handouts.  The Dems are making them more and more attractive to keep the votes and the way they support those handouts is by taxing the rich.  Pure and Simple!  It isn't fair to the rich and it isn't fair to the dependents of handouts as they don't know how to work and make it on their own!