... not all American taxpayers are equal - and that is exactly why the system is so screwed up. There are millions of American taxpayers who are paying well more than their fair share.
Being the leftist stooge that you are, you want the income tax to be used to punish success. However, in order to be fair and to counter the idiocy that a goodly portion of the citizenry should be able to receive all of the benefits and more without paying anything in, the income tax rate should be flat. EVERY American should have an equal percentage of skin in the game. The only reason why progressive rates should even be considered at all is to create an initial threshold that exempts the first 20 or 30 thousand of taxable income from tax. And then, the progressive nature of the tax brackets should be very shallow and short.
But, of course, you don't give a damn about having a fair, reasonable tax system, you grubby lil' leftist ... no, you want a tax system that punishes Americans who are responsible and work hard for their financial success and that arbitrarily and dictatorially redistributes wealth to those who agree with your leftist ideology. You know what that is, zzfart? It's called theft, and it was a major cause of the revolution that created this country in the first place.
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