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akuma587 on 09 April 2009
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Kasz216 said:
akuma587 said:
Inherently morally superior? That's complete bull. Every moral system has a different attitude towards how much people are expected to "give." That's just plain false that one system of taxation is morally superior to another. Under some moral systems, a regressive tax system would be morally superior to a progressive or flat tax.

Name one.

The closest to it ever put into practice was that everyone should pay an equal amount.  Which isn't really regressive in the true sense of the word since the poor and rich are still paying the same amount.

Either way... it's your opinion that treating people differntly is morally superior?

Edit: FYI the Fuedal ages used Progressive taxation.

Well, you didn't have regressive taxation per se in ancient history, but the poor were essentially expected to give and devote their lives to their leaders in many cultures (Egypt, China, Japan, Russia, etc.).  In many of those countries, the royal people were seen as gods.  The average person was expected to give their lives for that person if the need arose.  And many of the poorest people were worked into the ground like animals.  That's even worse than regressive taxation, but within the moral code of those societies that was what was proper.

I never said that treating people differently was morally superior.  Morally superior is about as relative a term as you could use.  It depends on whose morals you are talking about.

 



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