There is no other way...no deeper analysis. You are saying that you "believe" taxing income and property is immoral...and that the progressive tax code is not designed to raise revenue as much as it is designed to alter the behavior of certain citizens.
All I can do is disagree. Neither of us can read the minds of the people who passed the tax legislation over the tens of decades to determine what their motives are. Your take is a very glass half empty viewing; I tend to think they were doing what they claim they were doing.
As for the "immorality" question...I think you are way off base, but I will listen to why you think it.
What moral code do you base your assessment on? Are you making a religious argument...or a philosophical one? Give me some idea of why you think the concerns you have outweigh the concerns others have on the continuum.
I will comment in greater depth on that.
Okay...but if they do not have the money to pay anything more...what difference does it make. The legislators make the rules of taxation...and they make it on a gradient, so that the people who can pay taxes, pay...and the ones who cannot...don't.
You certainly can attempt to get something like that...but I think there is a better chance of setting up a human colony on the surface of the sun than getting legislators to pass it.
Feasibility is as important to decent tax policy as anything else...and the kind of thing you are proposing, in my opinion, has no chance at all. It is little more than wishful thinking on the part of people who feel the way you do on this issue.
Ummm...next time I am being facetious or being a wise-ass, I will make sure I post those remarks in green!
My thoughts on the issue, ILA, is that we have to do away with the entire economic system...not make a few tweaks in the tax laws. We have to change the entire philosophy of how we handle how we obtain what we need...and how it is distributed.
We can go into that in greater depth if you want, but it is complicated.
I'd expect you to at least read the OP in my:
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...t=unemployment
...a thread that got no play here at all.
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