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Re:Rejected for a Job at the Container Store by kjs3 on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @04:59PM (#8598529)
<i>Everyone should pay the exact same tax rate. The confiscatory, class-envy based taxation is unfair and unjust.</i>

Not that current taxation policy is anything but ridiculous, but flat tax isn't particularly "fair", for many values of fair. For example, the burden of paying, say, 20% of gross income is wildly different for someone making 20k/yr vs someone making 100k/yr.

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Re:Rejected for a Job at the Container Store by jack-r-abbit on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @05:46PM (#8598776)
But at the same time, it is "fair", for other values of fair. (like "impartial", "unbiased", "unprejudiced" and "neutral") Also, "fair" is kind of location based... a lot depends on which side of the equation you sit.
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