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Originally Posted by baddog
Life is not fair.
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When you have a discussion about the fairness of federal income tax policy, that statement cuts both ways. If we were living as individuals in the wild that could be the end of the analysis... fortunately we are not. We are part of a thriving society, that even on it's worst day is infinitely better than any of us could ever do completely on our own. Part of that societal agreement is that the least among us will benefit from being lumped in with the rest of us.
When one of us is very ill, disabled, less capable or unlucky... the rest of us see to it that the unfortunate one is not left to deal with it all on their own. That is the basic premise all societies are built upon. In some generations your lineage will benefit much more, in other generations it will put much more into the system than it gets out. I'll never get back all that I have contributed so far... but given a choice, I would much rather be capable of contributing more than I get back rather than being someone else less fortunate who is unable to do so.