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...more than 30 Greenpeace protesters broke into a nuclear power station in eastern England today in an effort to demonstrate poor security at nuclear plants.
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The looming fight about who pays what is likely to be one of the biggest, bitterest political battles of the year. But the debate is not only about the distribution of wealth. It is also about the basic purposes of the tax system... Is the tax code supposed to redistribute wealth, either directly from one pocket to another or indirectly through spending on schools, health and highways?A more fundamental question, for those who don't assume the morality of redistribution: should taxation be compulsory or voluntary?
Those who are crying "tax cuts for the rich" never define where "rich" begins. It takes a household income of just $83,500 to be in the top 20 percent... Even to make the top 5 percent requires a household income of just over $150,000... The only people whose taxes can be cut are people who are paying taxes... Tax rates are so skewed that a relatively small percentage of the population pays a huge proportion of the taxes at any given time.