What is a "fair share"?

There is not a rich person in America that pays so much in taxes that their life, business or desires are in any way restricted by their tax burden, yet the things their taxes pay for - infrastructure, education, R&D, a dignified retirement, security, and the social safety net they seam to hate so much insure that they have a ready, capable work force to hire from, millions of modestly prosperous consumers to sell to, and public investments in a clean, safe, well run, speedy environment in which to conduct business and build wealth.

But the same cannot be said for the struggling and shrinking middle class. Their tax burden is painful and life diminishing. Most understand that the things above that benefit the rich benefit them too. But these things actually enrich the rich where as they are little more than necessary services to keep the middle class from being poor.

So a 'fair share' is when your tax burden is affordable, and proportional to the benefits and opportunity gained from the things that taxes pay for. Hands down the rich get the most benefit from the things taxes pay for for the least impactful burden to bear.

It really is not about rates so much. Taxes are right and fair when all the nations bills are paid, the economy is expanding and the fortunes of the middle class are growing proportionally to the wealth of the nation. Today the economy is expanding, but the nations bills are not paid, the fortunes of the middle class are shrinking while all of the economic gains are concentrated with the very rich. So the system is out of kilter.

A fair share means that everyone pays the same amount period. Tehy don't charge you less to go see a movie if you make less money.

That is unpracticle for taxes so we have to go on a percentage. Those percentages are staggered so that the government can get enough revenue without taking all the money from the half of all Americans.

Taxation has nothing to do with Fair. It is just a necessary evil that has been abused by a factor of at least 40% of everything we pay.

I think your class rates are far too hyperbolic. Lower middle class 75 K - 200K?

My group breakdown is

0-25K Poverty

25 K -75 K Lower middle class

75K- 125 K Middle class

125 K - 250 K Upper middle class

250 K - infinity Rich

Actually, the word "fair" is nowhere found in either the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution.

Our Creator created us "equal" at birth, but it is not the government's role to make sure we stay that way. Our government exists to provide equal protection under the law -- of our lives, liberty, and property.

It is not the gvernment's function to ensure equal outcomes by robbing Peter of his property to provide Paul with his "fair share." Even though it may seem fair for everybody to play by the "same set of rules," often the rules themselves are inherently unfair (such as the federal tax law).

It seems that for liberals a rich persons "fair" share is 10 to 30% more than the fair share of the poor.

I mean what's unfair about one person giving up 10% (and in many case much less) and another having to give up 35%, I just do not see what is unfair of one person having to give three times as much (percent wise) than another (obvious sarcasm)

A fair share to liberals is the full amount needed for any program and necessary to make them have zero or negative tax liability simultaneously.

Paying a "fair share" is paying the same percentage as everyone else pays, also known as a "flat tax rate".

To many, a fair share is someone else paying more than the complainers.

Fair share is a talking point liberals use to justify their tax and spend policies...

It's a subjective and ambiguous term used by politicians and anyone who doesn't want to be specific.