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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
No one is paying 50% tax while making 50k and the person making $1M is already paying way more tax.
Should we tax them at 95% so the takehome of both people is the same?
What exactly are you suggesting? At what tax rate have they paid their fair share?
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Your first post suggested that people in this thread should give away 60% of what they make as if that 60% doesn't scale wildly differently depending on which end of the income spectrum they fall. Even someone making $100k annually giving away 60% of their income puts them in a far more precarious position than someone who makes over $1M paying a 60% marginal tax rate on everything they make over $1M.
No one is asking rich people to suddenly live like poor people. The people who are pro taxing the rich more are just saying there are probably tangible benefits to society as a whole by making them slightly less rich and redistributing some of that money.