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Eomund said:

Kasz216 said:

Eomund said:
This thread is quickly becoming a debate on the human condition and how to fix it. Whether we can fix it by legislation and government intervention, or if we can fix it through improving the human position. When people are truly generous we are going to be better off. How do we get there? Not through redistribution of wealth by government, but by decreasing our flaws as people. How is that accomplished? Through changing the hearts of men and women one at a time through a compassionate call to willingly (not by mandate by government) live as servants to others.

Now back to the FairTax.

See, i'd argue this slight redistribution of the current tax code is preventing the gap from becoming larger and a REAL redistribution from happening.

That is also what Karl Marx said, not that I am equating you and him.

But a "slight redistribution"? You call 1% of our population paying 36.9% of the tax burden a "slight redistribution"? I call it robbery! Perhaps the 1% should pay more than any other 5% but they should not be paying over one third of the total tax bill.

They are only paying 11.4% more than their share based on wealth. The bottom 50% pay 17.9% more than their share based on wealth. So... what's your point again? Tax the upper-middle class?

[edit:  Also, I haven't read the Communist Manifesto, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't arguing for a "slight" anything.]