The vast majority of income taxes paid do not fund services, but rather transfer the fruit of your labor to others who did not do the work. It does not redistribute wealth, rather it redistributes income. Hence Income Tax is just a form of idirect slavery and makes it harder for working people to accumulate wealth.
If you really want to tax the rich and provide relief for the poor, then the entire Income Tax approach should be thrown out the window. An ASSET tax hits the wealthy much harder than an income tax.
Some quick facts to help cut through the emmotion and ideology of this thread: The top 1% of earners pay 21.20% of all taxes paid at an average rate of 24%, the top 2 – 5% of earners pay 14.55% of all taxes at an average of 18% (Top 5% pay @36% of all tax) The bottom 50% pay 3% of all tax collected at an average rate of 2.98%.
