Taxes - what's a "fair share?"

[Doctor Phibes]

We have been hearing that the pay gap is increasing. Did the top 1% of taxpayers earn proportionally more in 2021 than in previous years?

If so, then this is rather like pretty much everybody I know who gets a free company car, and then complains about how much tax it costs them.

[LuFins Dad]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Taxes - what's a "fair share?":

We have been hearing that the pay gap is increasing. Did the top 1% of taxpayers earn proportionally more in 2021 than in previous years?

If so, then this is rather like pretty much everybody I know who gets a free company car, and then complains about how much tax it costs them.

Take out the top and bottom 1% and give me that pay gap..

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K

Taxes - what's a "fair share?

Most of yours and not much of mine.

[89th]

Fair share has never been about being fair. There should be equity in the tax code. The more you make the more dollars you pay, but the same percentage.

[Doctor Phibes]

Fair is a meaningless term. Some people think rich people should pay more. Some don't. Rich people in particular probably feel that way.

Is it "fair" that some guy gets paid millions of dollars a year? He probably thinks so. People getting 30K probably don't.

I have no problem at all with taxing the rich. They're rich, they can afford it. The real trick is to not tax them so much that they want to go and live somewhere else.

[Copper]

The guy who draws a graph like that is just trying to start trouble.

[taiwan_girl]

The definition of rich is someone who make more money than you!! LOL

[Jolly]

10%.

If it's good enough for Jesus, it ought to be good enough for Uncle Sam.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in Taxes - what's a "fair share?":

10%.

If it's good enough for Jesus, it ought to be good enough for Uncle Sam.

Yeah, but Jesus saves

[Jolly]

In many ways.

[Renauda]

Yeah, but Jesus saves

But McDavid scores.

[taiwan_girl]

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