In a capitalistic society it is imparative and moral to have a progressive income tax.

[WCGreen]

The reason why is that those who make and have the most have the most to loose if things go wrong.

Happy holidays...

[valerief]

1. It's funny seeing 'moral' with 'capitalistic'. nt

[Hydra]

3. Ya

Capitalism isn't moral by itself. Everyone talks about how in carefully controlled circumstances capitalism is great.

The same could be said of poison. Do we want poison as a basis for our economy?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. True that!

K&R

[Laelth]

4. I agree with the thesis, but not the reasoning.

I think those who benefit most from this society ought to bear the greatest share of the cost of maintaining it.

:dem:

-Laelth

[WCGreen]

5. Pretty much the same thing...

from a different appraoch...

[Laelth]

6. Close enough. n/t

:toast:

:dem:

-Laelth

[uponit7771]

7. Not only is it moral but it makes sense, the rich don't spend like te middle class and only ...

...inflate indexes that end up hurting the middle class.

[Mudoria]

8. We do have a progressive tax

[eomer]

11. But the net result of all our taxes may not be progressive.

Sales tax, for example, is regressive.

Here is an article that says the net result in the US is not progressive:

http://www.ctj.org/pdf/taxday2009.pdf

[avaistheone1]

9. Another reason is that our country was setup so that we would not have an aristocracy.

[keep_it_real]

10. But are the legislatures moral enough to bring one into law?