Everyone benefiting equally from a dollar of government spending should contribute equally as a proportion — the moment you say 'but yours counts for more,' you've made the whole system political instead of principled.
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Should billionaires pay a higher tax rate than their own employees?
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Honestly this just drives wealth offshore and we end up with less tax revenue overall — there's decades of economic research showing aggressive progressive rates cause capital flight. We'd be shooting ourselves in the foot.
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Capital gains taxes exist because that money was ALREADY taxed once when it was earned. Stacking a higher rate on top of that isn't fairness, it's just double punishment.
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Billionaires already pay enormous absolute dollar amounts in taxes — we're talking billions vs. thousands. Focusing on the *rate* instead of the actual contribution is just optics designed to make people feel resentful.
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Why punish someone for building something massive? My uncle started with nothing and grew a company to 200 employees — taxing him at a higher rate than his workers just feels like a slap in the face for actually succeeding.
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These guys use more public infrastructure, more legal protection for their assets, more regulatory frameworks to protect their monopolies — why on earth would they pay less for it than the people they employ?
The whole point of a progressive tax system is that sacrifice should be proportional, and honestly a billionaire losing 50% still lives better than my entire family combined.
Basic economics — marginal utility of money decreases as you accumulate more of it, so taxing the billionth dollar at a higher rate than someone's 40,000th dollar actually makes rational sense.
I work 50 hours a week and a third of my paycheck vanishes before I even see it, meanwhile guys sitting on yachts are paying 20% on capital gains. Something is deeply wrong here.
Warren Buffett literally admitted he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary — that's not a quirk of the system, that's the whole broken design of it.