This is an issue I took on at the DuPage County Board…..
by Marine Domer (2024-02-17 13:52:41)

In reply to: "Fair" is one of those loaded words. Fair to who, exactly?  posted by Barney68


years ago. A lecturer came in to defend Pritzker’s proposal for a graduated income tax, and told me that it was “fairer” than a flat tax. I asked him by what measure, and he babbled about how it has been studied. I pressed the issue and asked him to explain to me how “fairness” is objectively measured, and more specifically, if Person A make $500K/year and pays 5% of that, or $25,000 in taxes, and Person B makes $50K, and only pays $2,500 in taxes, how is that objectively “unfair” to the person paying 1/10th of what the other guy is paying? One can argue about policy, but don’t try to sell me on objective “fairness.”


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