Progressive tax rates
have always puzzled me because they assume that government has different value for citizens based on their incomes.
Break government down to the basics and it is essentially a provider of services — defense, transportation, the legal system, schools
In that way, it’s little different than a private sector business.
Except in the private sector, goods and services have a set value; all customers pay the same. You don’t have to scan your 1040 at the gasoline pump to set the price per gallon.
Only in government does every customer pay a different price for the same thing.
Reader Jon Taub sent me a note last week putting the difference between government and private sector pricing in perspective.
Taub, a corporate lawyer for a Detroit business, notes that the top 1 percent of earners pay for 38 percent of the general fund
Forty-seven percent of earners pay nothing for these services. And the bottom 40 percent actually get a reverse payment from the federal government in the form of a refund on taxes they don’t pay.
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