Resolution resolved progressive income taxes are just
The value is justice in that we are argueing whether something is just or not
my criteria will be that of the social contract based on John Lockes second treatese
on goverment
I.
welfare and other social programs that ensure that the basic human
rights are being meet are payed for by progressive income taxes.
According to taxpolicycenter.org the US government makes 45% of its income
through income tax, also according to federalbudget.com the US plans to spend
900 billion dollars on human services. To break this down to percentages the US
government in the month of September 2009 220 billion dollars were brought in
in revenue, 99 billion dollars of that is from income taxes and 66.6 billion dollars of
that is spent on human services that provide basic human needs. We can reasonable
assume that the major source of goverment income will be spent on one of the
government biggest expenses
II.
progressive income taxes are also just in giving each their due because
the rich received all their wealth through interactions with society and
therefore their resources as well as the those of the poor are in debted to
the society.
If you think about it everything you have ever received in your life you have
received because of your interaction with society whether it be good or bad.
Therefore if you have received everthing through society then don’t you owe
everything to society and the opportunity’s they have given you, then should the
society need more or less help from you then shouldn’t you accept the fact that
society is calling back some of its money or resources back then shouldn’t you
willingly give back to society what society has given you.
III.
Under the social contract the rich have agreed to accept current tax
policy’s
According to lockes theory of the social contract when you enter into a society you
give up some of your rights you had in the state of nature, or the state without the
government , when they eneter into a society and benefit from the society. So as
the rich both continue to live and these society’s as well as benefit from the society
then the must apply by the rules of the society, and the same apply’s to the poor. The
current government model for America is democracy, in America the people or at
least the majority of people have choosen to have progressive income taxes through
the democratic process and so to have them removed from the people who have
choosen them would be in and of itself would be unjust to remove the due of the
people their due right to choose what taxes they would like to have implemented.
The value is justice in that we are argueing whether something is just or not
my criteria will be that of the social contract based on John Lockes second treatese
on goverment
I.
welfare and other social programs that ensure that the basic human
rights are being meet are payed for by progressive income taxes.
According to taxpolicycenter.org the US government makes 45% of its income
through income tax, also according to federalbudget.com the US plans to spend
900 billion dollars on human services. To break this down to percentages the US
government in the month of September 2009 220 billion dollars were brought in
in revenue, 99 billion dollars of that is from income taxes and 66.6 billion dollars of
that is spent on human services that provide basic human needs. We can reasonable
assume that the major source of goverment income will be spent on one of the
government biggest expenses
II.
progressive income taxes are also just in giving each their due because
the rich received all their wealth through interactions with society and
therefore their resources as well as the those of the poor are in debted to
the society.
If you think about it everything you have ever received in your life you have
received because of your interaction with society whether it be good or bad.
Therefore if you have received everthing through society then don’t you owe
everything to society and the opportunity’s they have given you, then should the
society need more or less help from you then shouldn’t you accept the fact that
society is calling back some of its money or resources back then shouldn’t you
willingly give back to society what society has given you.
III.
Under the social contract the rich have agreed to accept current tax
policy’s
According to lockes theory of the social contract when you enter into a society you
give up some of your rights you had in the state of nature, or the state without the
government , when they eneter into a society and benefit from the society. So as
the rich both continue to live and these society’s as well as benefit from the society
then the must apply by the rules of the society, and the same apply’s to the poor. The
current government model for America is democracy, in America the people or at
least the majority of people have choosen to have progressive income taxes through
the democratic process and so to have them removed from the people who have
choosen them would be in and of itself would be unjust to remove the due of the
people their due right to choose what taxes they would like to have implemented.
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