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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Geoffrey Widdison
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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. Property rights are a social construct which societies create and enforce because they are useful. We are not born with any property outside our own skin. We let people own land, for example, but if you own land you got it from someone else, who got it from someone else, and at some point, someone just sat down on that chunk of land and declared it 'theirs' (more that likely, it was outright stolen a few times in it's history). That piece of land doesn't innately belong to anyone, but we've created a system of rules and cultural agreements for who 'owns' it, simply because we find that useful. It creates stability and encourages people to improve the land and produce usefu
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Is there any moral justification for our Progressive Income Tax System?