How the hell do you get from here:

Originally Posted By: Derid
Your insistence that amount of pain inflicted on a person is the real measure of their worth is something most rational people find objectionable tbh.

The article was actually pretty interesting, and there is plenty worth thinking on. Its a pity to turn it into a facile exercise of shedding and assigning "guilt".


to here?

Originally Posted By: sini
Well, then how can you turn around and oppose to ultra-progressive taxation? I think every one of you floated some form of a flat tax at one or another point. After all, if only absolute values matter, why bother taxing bottom 50%?


Derid said that most people object to inflicting pain in proportion to their worth and then you question how he can object to punishing people in proportion to their wealth.

Obviously you didn't read the link I gave you to Rand Paul's budget. His flat tax doesn't effect anyone making below $50,000, makes some cuts and still manages to fund social security. Which I personally think needs to see the sunset it was originally supposed to have 70 years ago.

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