Uncle Swan on Nostr: What is remarkable is not that the rate of tax charged should fall as a percentage of ...

What is remarkable is not that the rate of tax charged should fall as a percentage of income in this particular case, but that it should ever have seemed "fair" that different persons should pay wildly different amounts for the services of government during the twentieth century. This is particularly odd in that those who use government services the most pay the least, and those who use them least pay the most. - The sovereign individual