If you think of taxes as pitchfork insurance, or think of the government's
primary duty as being the protection of the rule of law and (therefore) protection of our individual security in our possessions, then it follows that those with great wealth, or even marginally greater wealth by-- let's say -- two or three standard deviations from the mean, are getting much more from "government" than those with little or nothing to protect.
And should accordingly pay much much more. As they do.
There is also the issue of focussing too intently on 1040 income vs wealth, when we start talking about the truly wealthy, but that's another day's topic.
IMO the general structure is appropriate but that doesn't mean it couldn't use some tweaking, and most of that tweaking IMO should be in the area of taking, yes, horrible as it might sound, a greater amount from the top one percent.
(and progressively more within that top one percent as the taxpayer moves from the 99.1 percentile to the 99.99 percentile.)
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Posted: 01/10/2023 at 6:59PM