A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.
We cannot tax the same people we expect to create jobs. That is a recipe for keeping people out of work.
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
Tax should be the same for everybody.
A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.
People think of taxes as money just being robbed from you. They don't consider the benefits of paying taxes. The benefits that they get and also the benefit of just being a part of a large group of people: a town, or a city, or a country, or a society that allegedly should stand together and all try to help each other.
I think we need to have competitive tax rates in order to create jobs in this country. And I think it should be fair.
Tax credits do not help people get better jobs; in fact, they can create poverty traps that actually disincentivise people from working more hours or finding a better paid job.
The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.
Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do.
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