TheMeInTeam
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I had much more specific answers to the question in mind than some grand abstraction like "equality of outcome."
Too bad . I've already typed like 4x the amount here, given the quality of responses/actual representation of what I'd written to that point it wasn't worth the effort. "not 100%, not slavery" will have to do for now.
Like, in the US we have an estate tax that applies when you try to leave more than $5 million to your kids. Does that in your view constitute an arbitrary discrimination against rich people? Is it disincentivizing productivity?
Whose productivity? I find this one interesting. You want incentive to work for the kid...but why exactly 5 million, and why on estate transfer as opposed to other times? For the latter perhaps it's less costly to enforce.
How about the fact that we have a bracket system that requires you to a higher percentage of your income the more you make? Unfair discrimination that disincentivizes productivity?
Possibly. Given how corporations are bypassing individual responsibility and fingering policy setting, It'd be hard to buy their arguments that they're not getting a fair shake, but some people just have a day job that makes a bit more and then the progressive system doesn't seem as fair in that case by comparison.
The convoluted nature of tax reeks of games being played to screw people into/out of money.