Let’s boil the Obama tax plan down to trick-or-treating.
Let’s take 100 kids.
Since 40% of Americans don’t pay taxes then 40 children will stay home. We’ll call them the “poor”.
The other 60 all go out trick-or-treating.
After they all return we’ll line them all up by who brought back the most candy.
Then, we’ll line up the 40 who didn’t trick-or-treat right next to them.
Since we’re going to impose a tax on the top 5% of Americans then the 5 best trick-or-treaters will now share their candy with the other 95 children. We’ll call these top-5 candy gatherers the “rich”.
First, the other 55 who went trick-or-treating (who we’ll call the middle class) will each give 1 piece of candy to each of the 40 children who didn’t go trick-or-treating.
Second, the top-5 candy gatherers (rich) will give 2 pieces of candy to each of the other 55 (middle class) who went trick-or-treating.
Lastly, the top-5 candy gatherers (rich) will give 2 pieces of candy to each of the other 40 who didn’t go trick-or-treating (poor).
Does this seem fair? Is it fair for children to receive candy who didn’t earn it? Is it fair for those hard-working children to have to share their candy with those who did nothing?
Do you think the top-5 trick-or-treaters will go trick-or-treating next year since they’ll get candy whether they do or not?
If they do will they make sure they’re not in the top-5?
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