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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Is there any moral justification for our Progressive Income Tax System? Moral justification for progressive taxation rests on the following: Progressive taxation is deemed to be fair by vast majority of the citizens in America. [ 1]
Concept of 'fairness' like any other social beliefs evolve over time and the Constitution is amended to reflect these changing views. It was just 100 years ago that the Federal Income Tax was codified in the 16th Amendment. [ 2]
"Inalienable rights" of property is also not so black and white (pardon the pun) as many in the South used precisely such an argument in favor of slavery. [ 3]
Many on the Right conflate fairness with the fairness of outcome which is not the case. Fairness certainly doesn't mean that we are all the same or that we all have the same opportunities. It doesn't even mean that we all have the same results from our en
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Is there any moral justification for our Progressive Income Tax System? There is no moral justification of a progressive income tax.