I think taxes should be based on a 5-year rolling average, to ease the burden for people who have high income only once in their life. Winning the lottery or patenting an invention that makes you rich is the American dream. Let’s tax high earners but show some lenience for folks who have a once in a lifetime windfall.
The bottom 50% holds 2.3% of the wealth. So if your 3.3% is correct then that would say they are paying at least 43% to much.
We shouldn’t be taxing basic necessities, we should be taxing things that accrue wealth.
If someone owns a shabby house and their income only makes ends meet they should be paying nothing in taxes.
If you want those people to pay more taxes, the wealth needs to be spread to those groups so that wealth can be taxed.
Different argument. The implicit narrative here is that the rich don’t pay taxes when in reality they pay almost all the taxes. If you want them to pay even more then that’s fair but the reality is that most people don’t have the faintest clue what the actual numbers are to begin with.
It’s only a different argument because you want it to be. You’re selectively choosing which percentages you want in the argument, and which ones not. I’m not that versed in the different logical fallacies, but I guess this is a straw man fallacy? Atleast, that’s one of the strategies I get for this fallacy; oversimplifying an argument, and then attacking this argument.