If you paid a single dollar in Federal Income Taxes....Follow

Well, the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are people for some purposes, so I don't see why they can't be people for tax purposes.

And yes, there is a very big difference between income and profit. Profits are pure gain. Income is not. Virtually my entire income is taxed because I do not have much in the way of write offs. If I were a business(like my mother-in-law the lawyers), then I could write off huge amounts of things as "business expenses". The fact that I have many of the identical expenses she does, makes no difference at all. I can't write them off, she can.

Also, you're an idiot too.

Ooh! Ooh! I know this one! Pick me!

Look buddy, either you're the racist moron with a kitten's understanding of government or you're the die-hard GOP tool who says "Gee, I sure hate to agree with the racist moron but here's twenty-five paragraphs of ridiculous reasons why everything he said is 100% correct..."

You're going to have to pick one.

F'uck me.

Forgive my hyperbole. But otherwise I'd be happy to be taxed twice. Just twice that is. Every dollar I get is taxed when I get it, when I spend it, when I save it, when I die and leave it to someone else, every single year when the property I own gets taxed... hell, I'd love it if I was only taxed twice.

True. It is rewarded with a total tax burden of, in some cases, nearly 60% of income. Sign me the f'uck up!

How does that remotely relate to, or mitigate, the fact that progressive income tax structures penalize success and reward laziness?

Ah, you want fairness. You must have grown up in a house without a dad. Or he was a sh:tty father. Mine taught me life wasn't fair at a pretty early age.

Sex without paying for it? SCORE!!

Bet you wish you were a liberal, eh?

You have to look at the big picture. The overall system still amply rewards success. Just because one element of the system doesn't maximize the success:reward ratio doesn't mean that the system punishes success and rewards laziness. Quite the contrary.



So did mine. Yours must not have taught you that the point is to MAKE it fair.

Afterall, if you accept that life isn't fair, then you really don't have any grounds to complain that a progressive tax system isn't fair. You can argue that it's ineffective, but there's not much of an argument to make there.

Moe,

You're dad told you to suck it? That I can believe.

So you're not going to do anything to make life fairer, which makes you a leech. Meanwhile I'm getting my PhD and will be paid well to do things to make this rotten world a better, fairer place. At the very least you can't expect me to care about what you think is fair to you when you essentially say, "Fuck fairness."

It's only nonsense if you're too stupid to understand it. I'll bet the reality is that you don't have an argument so you resort to being dismissive.



Yeah, it's not like fairness is all or nothing though. Christ, do I really need to modify everything to the strictest technical accuracy? The point is to make life as fair as it can reasonably be. That's why if I go around killing people just because I can, someone takes me away and locks ME up, likely even puts me to death. Hell, the primary argument against the progressive tax system is that it's NOT fair.

It's fine to argue that one system is fairer than the other (which I've already done if anyone* wants to actually challenge that), but don't try to dance around the issue by pretending that fairness doesn't matter. You care about fairness when it comes to you and yours, so let's not pretend otherwise.

*offer void where gbaji and varus