yikes.
That give's my family a tax bill of > $26,000.
Talk about burdoning the poor. That is the entire income for some families and pocket change to others.
So the wealth of an individual (whether measured in income or in consuption) should make no difference?
Exactly. I didn't think "from each according to his ability" was part of our constitution. What is your constitutional basis for transfer payments?
The current population is 294,997,212. At $1000 a head, that comes to almost $295 billion. Go to $2000 and you are approaching $600 billion. Isn't that enough to meet the constitutional powers? Sure, crank in some sort of tax forgiveness for the poor (based on income and assets). But when it comes to the main mission of the Federal government, national defense, why shouldn't each of us pay an equal share?