They are paying $@#%$ much more taxes because they made $@#%$ much more.

I did cover your entire point - you just do not like the answer. Besides, how many times do the higher/highest paying jobs have less/the least amount of hard work to do?

Nothing like literally killing yourself for $5 a hour. I guess you could counter with the "I am better" argument, but where does that lead? Again, to avoid the fighting and "I am better than you," we all pay the same statistical amount. Everybody is better/worse than everybody else in some way.

I gave an example of how broken your equal dollar idea is. Likewise, you continue to harp on how terrible the extra monetary (but not statistical) amount is, but seemingly pay no heed to the benefits of the larger income.

You make personal comparisons and use vague, subjective terms like "well off." What is well off? Is that well off? Am I well off? What if my well off is less? Do you take less well off? What if your well off is more? Do I now have to support your wasting?

Whereas 10% is, well, 10%.

Edit: Everything is relative (aren't you "filthy rich" at $70K to the person making $11K?), so how do you deal with that? You apply a constant statistical amount to that, hence the flat percentage.

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This comment was edited on Jun 6, 12:48.