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Re:US Senator Warren Introduces Bill to Simplify Tax Filing by mjevans on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @06:29PM (#11492865)
Taking your treating people equally to the logical conclusion, does that not also mean that everyone should have the same chance of success, the same opportunity to live and work in nice areas, the same pay for the job they work?

While I do think that there is room for individuality and competition, I don't think that it's logical that someone can be three orders of (base 10) magnitude better than average. Any such level of compensation / wealth is surely an irregularity that should be corrected by tax (law).

Re:US Senator Warren Introduces Bill to Simplify Tax Filing by bcheung on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @07:13PM (#11493127)
No. There's a subtle yet important difference between treating people equally and making people equal.

What you are talking about is equality of outcome.

I'm talking about equality before the law.

They are 2 different things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_before_the_law

I'm not sure what you mean by better but it's perfectly logical to me that someone can provide 3 orders of magnitude more economic value than someone else. The more leverage there is the more the differences between people will be exaggerated. By leverage I mean capital, education, technology, outsourcing, etc. I find it perfectly reasonable that someone who builds a product that enriches millions of lives should be paid orders of magnitude more than someone like a waiter who only services 1 person at a time.

It doesn't make sense to me that someone providing more value to society should be forced to pay more. That seems unfair to me.