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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (13532)2/23/2010 10:39:59 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
The current system is the perverse incentive for passive income. Actual work is penalized at a higher tax rate.

So I infer that from a moral perspective you think that an elderly person living off dividends paid on savings from a lifetime's work as a carpenter should pay the same or more in taxes than a current carpenter earning an equal income in wages. Would you explain your basis for thinking that a fair outcome? Or don't you care about the outcome, only the principle? What about the moral value of saving? Is that not being compromised? What about that retired carpenter living off of dividends as compared to a retired carpenter living off of Social Security or a pension?
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