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Originally posted by punkworld
If you were travelling with a woman and a child, and there was a bunch of stuff you needed to take along, would you mind carrying more than them just because you are stronger and thus can carry more, or would you insist on the woman and the child carrying just as much as you?
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Interesting analogy but now you speak of altruism and not being FORCED to carry extra.
But, as I said above, beyond the idea of higher income people paying in a greater amount is the fact that higher income people also will spend more and thus keep money flowing into other people's hands. You tax people more and they work on finding ways of hiding money or stowing it away in tax free investments instead of spending it. Cuz right now if you spend $100 on something that isn't a write-off it's like you spend $138 since you have to pay taxes on that $100 too.
Look at how shitty our economy is right now and how the war started and it hurt the economy... now THINK about this. How does a war effect the economy? Does it make a dollar less valuable. Do stores raise prices? NO. People get scared and stop spending money and whole it away. They don't invest in stocks, etc...
So the economy gets bad and a "liberal" says we better raise taxes cuz there is less money going around... but taking more from people makes them spend less and have less for stocks and the like. So how does that make sense?! The economy is nothing more than the result of psychology. Give people more to spend or make them feel safe about what they might spend and things get kicking.