(May 17, 2011 at 5:30 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: I don't know if there are many readers who live in a condo (or some similar housing association where a maintenance fee covers the common facilities shared by the owners). If you do, you know how maintenance fees work. You pay into a pool that is then used for the upkeep of common areas, such as grounds, facilities, building repairs, etc. The burden of maintaining the community is typically divided among the owners proportional to the space of each housing unit. If you own a larger condo, you pay proportionally more in monthly maintenance.
Why not structure tax burdens of running society in this manner?
Let's say the top 1% earn 40% of the total income for the nation. Income tax brackets should be adjusted so that 40% of our tax revenue comes from them.
Im for it, but why would the rich want to contribute to society in that fashion? Or the politicians? Or the movie stars? They are surely much better than we [/sarcasm]
..and even if many of us got together to do such a thing, someone would step in and find a way to get rich off of it.
As long as greed exists in the human mind, we will never have an equal society
