Title: Is there any moral justification for our Progressive Income Tax System? - Quora
Headings: Is there any moral justification for our Progressive Income Tax System?
Is there any moral justification for our Progressive Income Tax System?
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Geoffrey Widdison
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Content: 45% of Americans pay no federal income tax
By any standard of fairness, having half the people pay nothing while 1/5 pay virtually all is not a system where all people are paying their fair share. Moreover, since the nearly 50% who pay nothing have the same rights to vote that the actual taxpayers do, this creates a dilemma where people can vote endless more benefits for themselves on the presumption that someone else will have to pay th
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Geoffrey Widdison
, Engineer, reader, thinker, dreamer. Scientist, scholar, Latter-Day Saint. Answered 8 years ago · Author has 10.6K answers and 56M answer views
Is there any moral justification for our Progressive Income Tax System? Quite simply, your 'if' statement isn't valid. Property rights are not an absolute, inalienable right vested at birth.