So you can live on $3k a year and:
“A CEO paid $35 million/year can get by on $1 million/year.”
What the hell has that got to do with how people should be taxed?
Why don’t you just say everything people make above $3k a year just goes straight to the government? People don’t “need” any more than that.
“What the hell has that got to do with how people should be taxed?”
Reality.
Not enough income for a waiter to pay a 40% tax rate.
Not practical. We can’t have most waiters sleeping on the sidewalks.
If you insist on impractical proposals, you will get nowhere.
A doctor can pay 70% on a doctor’s income and live in a house.
A doctor can pay 70% on a doctor’s income and live in a mansion.
I can’t pay 70% and get by.
Just is.
Accept reality.