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You just fundamentally don't understand that taxes are related to income. If person A pays 15% of their income back in taxes, and person B pays 30%, every dollar that gets diverted to person A instead of person B we lose $0.15. The top 1% gets nearly a quarter of our GDP. When they pay only half the tax rate overall that working people pay, that costs our society enormously. If the entire top 1% paid only 15% that would cost us $525 billion every year. We can't afford to keep throwing that money out the window like that. They need to pay their fair share just like everybody else has to.
I really tire of your sanctimonious nonsense that I don't "understand" something. Your definition of fair share is based purely on what someone has rather than what someone GETS. I reject that assumption. I oppose the marxist attitude that because you have more you ought to pay more. YOU AGAIN LIE claiming that the rich pay only half the rate that working people pay. that is a lie because it is based on trying to incorporate non-progressive taxes that cannot be accurately measured by income class into a progressive federal scheme.
that 47% PAY NO INCOME TAX COSTS US billions using your concept of cost. but what really costs us BILLIONS is all the stuff the middle and lower classes demand in entitlements that they are not willing to pay for
your concept of fair is a joke