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.
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We cannot tax the same people we expect to create jobs. That is a recipe for keeping people out of work.
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.
Tax should be the same for everybody.
Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.
Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.
Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
People that create jobs create tax payers, which benefits society as a whole.
Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.
Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do.
I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the pain a little bit.