Thoughts on Fair Taxation

President Obama is now campaigning all of the country in the name of “fairness” especially how it relates to the US Tax Code. According to President Obama, “fair” means a progressive tax (where as one makes more money, they pay a higher percentage in taxes). What he’s trying to do through his “fairness” campaign is make the progressive tax more progressive by increasing tax rates on those that have higher incomes. According to the Obama administration, it is more “fair,” to raise taxes on the rich. I’m here to tell you that this isn’t true.

Of course all of that is nonsense. The left needs to realize that “fairness” has a real definition, much like racism also has a definition. The left tries to make up definitions for words to make them fit their radical agendas. Fairness can be defined as “the state, condition, or quality of being fair, or free from bias or injustice; evenhandedness”. The two parts that stand out to me would be “free from bias” and “evenhandedness.” This means that everyone is treated the same. No matter who you are, where you come from, how you live, or what you look like, you are treated the same. By the real term of fairness, how exactly is a progressive tax fair? Then another question must be asked. How is making the progressive tax more progressive more fair for everyone?

Another version of "fairness" President Obama supports.Now that we’ve looked at the ridiculousness that is President Obama’s “fairness” campaign, let’s look at some facts. With our current tax code in place, 1% of the population accounts for 40% of national tax revenue. This isn’t necessarily a bad statistic because even with a flat tax, higher income families would pay more income tax, just not a higher percentage. However, Obama’s “fair” initiative would make the 1% pay even more than 40% of the tax revenue. A statistic that really highlights Obama’s “fair” progressive tax is the fact that 48 percent of Americans don’t pay any income tax, at all. That’s right, almost 1 out of every 2 citizens doesn’t pay any amount of income tax. How exactly is that fair?

It isn’t. I don’t care who you are or how much money you make, every single citizen should be paying taxes. I don’t care if it’s 5 percent or 1 percent, as long as we have an income tax, everyone needs to have skin in the game. When the government isn’t spending your money, it’s easy to say that the government shouldn’t cut spending. If 100 percent of Americans were paying taxes, people would actually start to care about our national debt and how much money our government spends.

A much more fair tax system is a flat tax. Everyone is treated the same. Their is a flat percentage of let’s say 15 percent. In most flat taxes, there are no deductions. Filing taxes would become extremely easy! Take the amount of money you make in a year multiply that by 0.15 and send in the money. It’s really that simple. To comply with our current tax code, Americans spend millions of dollars a year! With a flat tax, that money would be freed up for other resources.People could take that money and put it to a better, more productive use rather than spending that money to comply with headaches the government has created. Even though a flat tax is a great alternative to a progressive tax, the flat tax still doesn’t tax everyone in the country. I believe the most fair tax is the Fair Tax. Which I have endorsed in another article on this blog. The Fair Tax aims to replace the income tax with a national sales tax. This makes sure that everyone that makes money is taxed, whether their income is on or off the books.

False.Making the progressive tax more progressive is the farthest thing from fairness. It's absolutely ridiculous that President Obama is calling it fair. I wouldn't have a problem calling it class warfare or something similar to that because class warfare is exactly what President Obama is using. Real fairness is equality of opportunity, a level playing field. "Fairness" to the Obama administration, and much of the left, is equality of outcomes. Marco Rubio has one of the best rebuttles to this ridiculous class warfare rhetoric that we have been hearing from our President. Rather than steal his words, I will quote him.

When I hear people telling the American people that the way to protect your job is to raise your boss's taxes, I think that's counter productive. When I hear policy makers in Washington pitting the American people against each other, telling people that the only way you can do better is if someone else is worse off, I get concerned. Because not only is it not true, that type of thought has never worked anywhere in the world. In fact, people flee from countries who think in that way. The American experience has been something very different. The American experience has been that this is a country where everybody can do better. Where the people that have made it can stay there and the people that are trying to make it can join them. We've never believed that the way for us to do better is other people having to do worse. We've never believed that for us to climb the latter, we have to pull somebody else down. ~ Marco Rubio

I couldn't have said it better myself.