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Old 01-15-2015, 01:33 PM
whell whell is offline
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Originally Posted by Tom Joad View Post
The fix is a true progressive tax with no loopholes.

It is simply morally wrong to have a minimum wage worker paying the same percentage of his or her income in taxes as a billionaire hedge fund mogul.
Maybe in an ideal world, but this isn't an ideal world. As long as we have a tax code that allows political types to mess with it at the behest of lobbyists, we will continue to have the concerns that are cited in the OP.
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