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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mph who wrote (6526)	3/11/2004 8:59:39 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

<<Would you agree that there is a distinction?>> Not really, because most money is taxed more than once. And the right uses an emotional appeal to fairness when it decries the "death" tax. You seem to think an appeal to fairness is a uniquely left dirty trick. I don't see it. I can't tell you how many times i've heard the right argue that the top 1% are paying 36% of the taxes and that's more than fair. Or that taxes are a certain percentage of gdp which is just unfair, or not right. It's only natural, if not entirely fair that we argue taxes this way. After all we're a nation built on the idea of justice, or fairness. Personally i think a person's tax load ought to be roughly in proportion to the amount of wealth they own. So if you own 1% of the nation's wealth, you should be paying about 1% of the nation's taxes. I think that would be fair... Steve Dietrich