Why should rich people pay a greater share of their wealth to taxes?

Why even have democracy then when we can have divine rights of Kings.

So if it's nature then the rich are rich because they are granted that by God. Why even have democracy then when we can have divine rights of Kings.

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Why even have democracy then when we can have divine rights of Kings.

With no inherence tax soon, as in a few generations at most, we will have “royal” families to the same degree as any country in the middle ages.

All by the divine right of blood lines.

As had been shown with the GOP the poor and the middle class can be talk into voting against their own best interest.

...As had been shown with the GOP the poor and the middle class can be talk into voting against their own best interest.

Second the poor have more children is not true under all conditions and for proof of that see the birth rate during the 1930s.

The poor and middle class in the "red" states (aka, the South) vote for the GOP, as I understand it, are voting to maintain the "status quo" in their neck of the woods.

"My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It's time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice," The 80-year-old "Oracle of Omaha" wrote in an opinion article in The New York Times.

Buffett, one of the world's richest men and chairman of conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc , said his federal tax bill last year was $6,938,744.

"That sounds like a lot of money. But what I paid was only 17.4 percent of my taxable income - and that's actually a lower percentage than was paid by any of the other 20 people in our office. Their tax burdens ranged from 33 percent to 41 percent and averaged 36 percent," he said.

The best way to close loopholes is so simplify. Once the tax burden is equally shared, then use special programs to bolster those that need assistance.

That's The FairTax Plan

The poor and middle class in the "red" states (aka, the South) vote for the GOP, as I understand it, are voting to maintain the "status quo" in their neck of the woods. In effect, vote Republican, so the families that own most of Main Street continue to keep their town afloat, and they can continue to live a life where everyone knows their place. That is actually, under the surface, voting for their own best interests.

Maintaining one's life style, so one doesn't have to move to the big city and rub elbows with a degree of diversity that might be anathema can also be a goal.

BillRM wrote:

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Why even have democracy then when we can have divine rights of Kings.

With no inherence tax soon, as in a few generations at most, we will have “royal” families to the same degree as any country in the middle ages.

All by the divine right of blood lines.

Are we forgetting that the poor have more children that eventually vote?

But what I paid was only 17.4 percent of my taxable income

All income is presumed to be taxable, but America's tax laws provide that income is taxed in a variety of ways. Wages for example are subject to several different types of tax rates. Dividends and capital gains may be taxed at a lower rate, and some income might be partially taxable or even non-taxable

So there are certain kinds of income that is not taxable, or that is taxed at a different rate.

I ran into that kind of situation many years also where two brothers who was join owners of a paving company and earning many times my income were paying less taxes then I was at the time.