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There is a reason why it is also called a progressive tax.

I explain the poor reasoning behind it to my kids using the example:

So bread and milk is taxed at 9.5%. Cigarettes and booze are taxed at 25%. Why do you think that is?

“The other booze and stuff you don’t need. It’s not good for you. Etc.”

“Correct. They call them sin taxes, one reason is to get you to stop doing them.”

Now - does it sound like a good idea to tax you more if you are a hard worker, maybe the president of a company that hires lots of people? Why would the government want to give you incentives to stop doing that!?

“Correct. They call them sin taxes, one reason is to get you to stop doing them.”

Big fallacy IMHO. They do not want you to stop, that would be the Governments excuse for taxing sin more. No, if you stop sinning the Government loses big time, no more high tax income from sinning. They know you don’t have the ability to stop, so pour on the taxes with the fallacious idea that government is concerned about your health. If Government truly was serious about your health, and not about extraction of wealth from your pocket it would ban the substance.

Except, banning things is not pro business. The GOP is generally pro business, the Government is in the business of picking winners and losers based on a lot of variables. One of those variables is how much you make and that is fallacy number two that is destroying the middle class, while elevating the lower class with the “minimum wage”.

In anyone’s world, taxation should be the same percentage for everyone, and that is key, EVERYONE!!!! If anyone rich or poor is exempt, that is the beginning of no one paying what the Democrats love to call, not paying your fair share, but completely ignoring those non payers they have created with the tax code.

And that my friends is how you end up with class warfare and give the democrats more power by letting them have the rich vs poor debate. If equality is what they seek then everyone pays the same and everyone pays.