In article PYrqj.3530$eD3.2111@trndny05,
"Dave Bugg" wrote:

Billy wrote:
In article ,
"HeyBub" wrote:

Billy wrote:

Make the taxes proportional to the benefit received from society.
The more you make, the greater the percentage you pay.

Shouldn't it be the more one uses government services, the more
taxes they should pay?

Societal infrastructure, telephone system, roads, television, UPS, Fed
Ex,

Out of all you mention, only roads are part of the public infrastructure.
Manufacturers pay the freight for the products that are transported by
roads, which includes the cost of fuel and other federal and state
transportation taxes.

citizens with disposable income, citizens with job skills, ect.,
creates conditions where MicroSoft or Ford, et al. can produce a
product and make a profit.

No. It is a direct trade. Consumers (citizens?) decide whether they want a
product and if it has value to them. The consumer then trades money for the
product that is produced. Government has nothing to do with this market
trade.

The entrepreneur may make the product

Every company was started by an entrepeneur.

but
it is society that provides the market.

Society provides the market?? Maybe in the former USSR and in China and
other communist countries. In this country, the consumer makes or break the
market for any product.

So make the taxes
proportional to the benefit received from society.

Bwahahahaha. There is so much ignorance in that statement, it would take
hours to explain the basics of why it is so laughable.

In the period from 2003 to 2005, on average, incomes for the top 1
percent of households rose 42.6 percent after adjusting for inflation.
The incomes of the middle fifth increased 4.3 percen and the poorest
fifth rose by 1.3 percent.
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