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Travis Monteleone's avatar

Are you sympathetic towards a more deterministic reason? I.e., the rich did nothing to deserve either their intelligence or their will to succeed, so they should pay a higher share of taxes to compensate for those born with neither?

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Thomas L. Hutcheson's avatar

I agree about the bad arguments. The only good argument for progressive consumption taxes is that the marginal value of consumption is higher at lower levels of consumption.

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