Boomer Socialism at it again
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No, it's not fair. It' not even close to being fair. What you are saying is like, it's fair for peasants to pay the same taxes as a king in order to fund the king's wars and the king's roads...
You've got too much communist programming inside your brain. Trying to unwind this is difficult.
A peasant earns $30k/yr and pays $3k in taxes when he spends all his money. The King earns $1,000,000,000/yr. Perhaps, the King lives like a peasant and only spends $30k/yr to live so he pays $3k in taxes. A war breaks out so the King decides to spend $1b to finance the war on-top of his usual $3k. He now pays $100,003,000 in taxes for the year while the peasant pays $3k still because he only earns $30k and spends all that he earns.
See, fair.