Rath on 09 April 2009
| Kasz216 said: If you can't figure out why though scifiboy... it boils down to one thing. Progressive Taxation = Treating people differently. Just like Rocketpig illustrated earlier in the thread. You don't want to treat everyone equal. You've just decided that "Rich vs Poor" is the group status you are attaching. With rich being the group you are attacking/predjudiced against. If you truley believe humans can get to an eglatarian utopia everyone must be treated equally... and that means equally. Things like Universal Healthcare can happen, but they've got to happen as a result of the community working for the common good. Not a small part of it that's easy to pick on. |
You could argue that in order for humans to get to an egalitarian utopia would require a breaking down of class barriers and the rich-poor divide being removed. Progressive taxation is a mechanism that does those things.
So while progressive taxation goes against the principle of egalitarianism it may be a step towards an egalitarian society, as strange as that is.
@Strategyking. We should be grateful that we have our rights, but that doesn't stop them being rights.
