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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (13530)2/23/2010 8:44:10 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
I would redefine your "moral outrage" as basic fairness.

It seems to me that fairness is a reasonable factor when you compare rates among demographic cohorts. Fairness is a human value. You can apply fairness to tax rates on the salaries of executives vs secretaries or married vs single. How do you apply fairness to interest vs dividends?

It seems to me that what you are doing is using the type of income as a proxy for a cohort but it's a poor proxy in multiple ways. If you want to raise taxes on the rich, then propose that directly. Raising taxes on dividends may hit the rich more than the poor but it also hits the poor. I have a poor, elderly aunt who collects dividend income from a utility stock willed to her by a friend. What about her? Is that fair? Retired people don't have salaries anymore. Many live off of passive income, instead. Is it fair to penalize them on the basis of the Protestant Work Ethic? I don't see how.
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