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Originally Posted by sleepy jack
I don't think it's progressive enough. I was more talking theoretically there, when you get into in practicality then yes it is technically progressive and technically the United States isn't even a capitalist country (in the same sense that there's never been a country that is completely socialist, communist, etc.) I was hoping this thread was more abstract but either way I think crash_override's assertion that the United States is overly-progressive as is is a bit silly considering the inequality of wealth in our society.
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The top 5% from the graph shown have roughly 20% of the income but pay oer 90% of the income tax. How much more progressive would you want it?
[and I agree that the numbers have changed from there, but for this argument I'm using the given numbers to issue an example to the point]
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