Tax Related: What does 'Fair Share' mean?

[werepossum]

LOL, Gates and Buffet's BILLIONS of Dollars are used for Scientific Research and humanitarian purposes.

Those 2 ALONE elipses MILLIONS of people like your contributions. Get it? What they give to society is what a million of YOU could do, or perhaps what YOU could do in a MILLION LIFETIMES.

So get your arrogant little head out of your ass and grow up. Life isn't about YOU.

I've said this before and I'll say this again. The most fundamental difference between a Liberal and Conservative is that Conservatives are all about ME ME ME, while Liberals are about ME AND OTHER PEOPLE AS WELL.

Not to mention that Gates personally wrote most of DOS (a huge advance over CP/M) and completely changed the software paradigm. If not for Gates managing to retain rights to DOS we might well be living in PC Babel, where every PC manufacturer is like Apple with its own proprietary OS and switching brands means replacing all your software.

I'm not a big fan of Buffet, but he also deals in venture capital. Many more companies owe their expansion into profitability to venture capital than to government programs: the profit motive is a much better predictor of a successful business model than is the ability to get a government grant.

 

[bullbert]

Tax Related: What does 'Fair Share' mean?

'Fair Share' means 110% of your income, unless of course, you are a Party Member. For Party Members, 'Fair Share' means 0% of your income.

 

[QuantumPion]

Every adult, regardless of employment or social status, pays $Total Government Spending / #Adult Population of United States.

Any other distribution of tax burden, is by definition, un-fair.

(I would buy the argument though that a sales tax is also fair, since the average person will have the same bare-necessity expenses and anything beyond that is voluntary.)

 

[OutHouse]

nm

 

[ElFenix]

'fair' means that people who have the same amount of whatever is being taxed pay the same amount of taxes, and also that people who have more of whatever is being taxed pay at least as much on a % basis

 

[MooseNSquirrel]

Why do you say that?
We don't have a progressive sales tax and that works perfectly fine.

Everyone needs skin in the game and the only fair way to have that is have either a national sales tax (replacing income tax) or a flat tax where everyone pays the same percentage.

Say the flat tax is 10%.

If you make $20,000 you pay $2,000
If you make $1,000,000 you pay $100,000

Sounds pretty fair to me.

The more money you have the more you are benefitting from the country's infrastructure.

This idea alone should make clear why a flat tax is inherently unfair.

This is simplifying, but put it this way: poor people don't use airports.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Not even remotely true.

Republicans have been trying to push that line of BS for 30 years now, and it's only ever accomplished the opposite of what they claim.

No shit, this guy sounds like the ghost of Ronnie Raygun