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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Content: The OP is asking for justification for a progressive taxation system (higher earners pay a higher percentage) as opposed to a flat margin tax (all earners pay the same percentage). Going by the moralist argument being given here (peole who earn more can afford to pay more!) if a government charged a flat margin (say 10%) on all income, then people who earned more income would still end up paying more tax in absolute dollar terms then those with lower income. But then again - a flat lump sum tax would have its own justification. Your office rent remains the same regardless of whether your business makes a profit or a loss. What your landlord is charging for is the opportunity to use his premises, and that opportunity remains the same regardless of how well you use to to generate an income an
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Rebecca Warner
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Answered 3 years ago · Author has 1.2K answers and 3.4M answer views
Is progressive taxation fair? Hell yes, progressive rates of income tax are fair. I assume when you refer to progressive taxation, you refer to income tax rates. There are other taxes (such as sales tax and property tax) that are extremely regressive. Wealthy people typically pay a very small part of their income for commodities such as gasoline, housing, food (and similar essentials).