On Sep 30, 3:25*pm, wrote:

This is what I don't get - why shouldn't _all_ "business owners" be taxed
equally? *Why should those who do _moderately_ well be taxed more? *Let's be
realistic, 250K is certainly comfortable, but it isn't rolling-in-it-rich - why
not tax 100K or even 50K at 40%?

Lot's of people have described the merits of progressive tax rates.
You can choose to reject those explanations but I accept them. "To
whom much is given, much will be expected."

*According to your own description, you spent
decades and only made 25K a year

I didn't say I was the business owner, just that I have personal
experience with it. The business provided a living wage to its
proprietors and its employees, but the nature of the particular
business was that there never would be spectacular profits, and
conscious decisions were made to stay small. Money isn't everything in
life.

I work _hard_ to earn what I earn

I have no idea what you do or how much you make (and don't really care
to know), and I'm sure that you do work hard; so do 11-year-old
Pakistani brick-makers for their two dollars a day. Frankly I don't
think many of us in the first world _earn_ our pay; yes we get _paid_
it, but that doesn't mean we _earn_ it. Lot's of people around the
world work just as hard and get paid a lot less. That goes for my
salary (public domain if you care to find it), and exponentially so
for the overpaid corporate CEOs we read about in the papers (I'm not
at all implying that you fit that category; like I said I have no idea
what you make).

their "government-supplied" services (and even those things that really

I'm with you there; I'm all for less government services, but the
politicians aren't (on either side), and as long as we're going to
promise services, we (corporately) better pay for them...

Take care,

Jon.