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emp
Lv 6
emp asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 9 years ago

Can anyone define "fair"?

Seen it used a lot in describing what people need to be taxed....so I'm all ears to hear EXACTLY and precisely what "fair" looks like. What is fair for someone making $250,000 in dollar terms?...what about $100,000? What about $50,000? I need to know what is the actual required break down of what fair is because we have passed a "fair" progressive tax based on percentage of income...and now it seems that it wasn't fair at all. I'm confused at what has changed (besides the definition of fair) since it's based on percentages. Help me understand...define and quantify fairness for me.

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  • Tyrant
    Lv 4
    9 years ago
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    Fair is equality. If someone has the privilege of driving everybody else should as well.

    When it comes to taxes it is when middle class people pay 20-25% of their income in taxes while the upperclass can get away with paying less down to 10-15%. I know we have tax brackets but what I'm talking is total amount taxed compared before taxes.

    So when you have someone making $21+million a year and only paying 15% while others have to give 20-30% only making $80-170K that's pretty ******* unfair.

    Like my Republican teacher said capital gains and dividend tax should be part of the income tax not separate, that we need to raise taxes now so we don't have to in the future at a higher rate, and that government should spend in times of economic trouble but cut back during economic prosperity.

  • 9 years ago

    Taxing investment at the same rate as earned income seems fair!

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Truly equal opprotunity. The hardest workers being the ones that make the most. Ecomomy built off Labor Theory of Value. None of that "Trickle Down" nonsense.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    For a liberal, what is "FAIR" is whatever benefits ME the most

    To many people, having the rich pay more and the poor get more would be fair. To many others, everyone paying the same percentage would be fair.

    FAIR is probably the most subjective word in the lexicon.

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  • 9 years ago

    I heard it defined once this way:

    Fairness is when someone earns $1 LESS than YOU do, and UNFAIR is anyone who earns $1 MORE than you.

    “POLITICAL CORRECTNESS is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the CLEAN END.” --- Former US Senator from Wyoming, Alan K. Simpson

    Republican since before she was born… and PROUD of it.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    When you're not the last to get hired and first to be fired because of your skin color

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    "Turns out my way regardless of an universally objective metric, with the supposition that such a thing exists."

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