Title: Is there any moral justification for our Progressive Income Tax System? - Quora
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Is there any moral justification for our Progressive Income Tax System?
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Content: For low income people, these costs use a large portion of their income - and cost them a large part of their income on associated taxes. If you ask: what percent of income goes to taxes on gasoline or food costs for low income people, it is much higher than the percent of income for wealthier people. Progressive income tax go part of the way (certainly less than all of the way) toward correcting for the regressive effects of things like sa
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Paul Baumann
, Owner-operator of government contract company (1985-present)
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What are the disadvantages of a progressive tax system? In my view the down side is that, coupled with government financed “charity”, it encourages class warfare and hypocrisy. A progressive tax such as the one in the USA results in the vast majority of taxes being collected from a relatively small minority of voters. The wealthiest 1% of the tax payers pay 39% of all income taxes. The wealthiest 5% pay 60%.