(June 27, 2015 at 2:37 am)whateverist Wrote: ... I would like to see government used to maintain an acceptable minimum level of wealth. To that end, I'd like to make taxes unavoidable and extremely regressive.
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I think you mean that you want taxes to be extremely progressive, not regressive. We have regressive taxes now, with rich people paying a lower percentage of their income than poor people.
Quote:regressive
2(Of a tax) taking a proportionally greater amount from those on lower incomes
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Quote:progressive
1.2(Of taxation or a tax) increasing as a proportion of the sum taxed as that sum increases
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"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
