Dave Mundt responds:

2) If a class of people is acquiring 90% of
the total income, is it not fairer that they
pay 90% of the taxes.

Not to that class. It's a "burden." I've got a somewhat different point of
view, having been up and down on the scale. It is obviously a higher percentage
of one's income if you pay 100 grand in taxes on 250K than if someone pays 2
grand on 10K.

For the hell of it, just work at who is having a bigger problem paying his
bills.

Fairness may or may not enter into it, but the fact is, 40% taxation of someone
in the higher brackets (where taxes are also more easily avoided, anyway) is
LESS of a real burden than is 20% taxation of someone in the lower brackets.

Damned few poor people can buy tax shelters.

Charlie Self
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