Quote Originally Posted by moka View Post
I’m sure you’d quickly come up with a definition of fair (or unfair) if the government started taxing you at 100%. When you are advantaged by a situation fair is supposedly impossible to define, and that would change if you were disadvantaged.

If you believe in the greed is good ideology you would say fair is impossible to define. But if you wanted a tax system that was considered fair by most of the citizens then fairness would be seen as social justice and people would be taxed according to their ability to pay.
However there is lots of money to be made by lawyers and accountants advising the rich how to minimise, avoid and evade taxes, so plenty of propaganda in the media saying fair is impossible to define, and advocating for a flat tax.
"Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?" Thomas Sowell