Thats left wing ideology which I strongly oppose. Progressive taxes are stomping on individual rights for the good of all. If they don't want to share theres just nothing to be done. If the students had already got their water and then the thirsty man stumbled in asking for it, I wouldn't be right to take it away from them if they're unwilling to help because it's their property then. So equal there would be my water, my decision. There is no rule anywhere that a private establishment has to serve anyone, let alone on first come first serve basis. Equality is not fairness, unless circumstances are also equal, and that is objectively not the case when talking about income levels.If I was running that bar, I could sell the water to whoever I please and if it prevented the man for dying, it sell or give it to him for free.

It lightens the load on those who earn less, and for whom it would be an unfair burden.

They aren't synonyms.Īnd that's how progressive taxation works. Equality is not fairness, unless circumstances are also equal, and that is objectively not the case when talking about income levels. The fair thing is to tell them you don't have any water, because this poor guy just staggered in and unless he gets the few bottles you have left, he's going to die.Īnd that's how progressive taxation works. The equal thing is to give everyone a half bottle of water. Right behind him, you hear giggles and hoots of laughter, and a gaggle of 11 college students come in, laughing and carrying on, having just rolled in from the city. He's been lost in the desert for 5 days, and is near death. That afternoon, the door slams open, and a man in torn clothing staggers in, croaking 'water, need water'. Your latest shipment's late, and you're running low on bottled water you've only got 6 bottles left, and no access to drinkable tap water. Imagine you run a bar on the edge of the desert. Flat taxes are deliberately unfair, in the name of equality. Progressive taxation is explicitly designed around the principle of being 'fair'. Why does it matter if it benefits the society or not? Flat tax would be fair and thats enough.You're confusing 'fair' with 'equal'.

Would a flat tax work