Rich Vs Poor Taxes Essay

Taxes have been a very controversial topic for awhile now. It seems everyone has different opinions on how it should work. When it comes to the tax distribution between the rich and the poor the debate becomes even harder. The average tax rate is the total amount of tax divided by total income; for example, if somebody makes $100,000 and pays $15,000, then their average tax rate is 15%. The real debate comes in when you start talking about taxes between the rich and the poor. I believe the rich should be taxed more than the poor because of the ideas of equal sacrifice and having equal loss of utility between both groups.

Equal sacrifice is an idea that could greatly help the tax problem between the rich and the poor. The term equal sacrifice …show more content…
When you tax these two groups the same amount of money, it puts the lower income people at an even higher disadvantage to be successful. Nearly all taxes are paid from straight from one's income, which some have considerably less of which again, is very unfair. Lots of times when a person is poor people will assume they don’t work hard, but some poor people work extremely hard but are then drained of all they have earned because of things like tax. This is very unfair and in my opinion needs to be changed.

From the research I did about this topic, I learned that there are a lot of people who agree with the idea of my thesis. But also, I learned how hard it would be to be able to split these taxes for people depending on their overall income. From looking at many different articles I also learned that there are many different approaching to changing these taxes, and as of now it is hard to tell which would be most effective. If people do nothing to help this problem, there is a good chance it will progressively get worse, so trying out all these different methods to help the problem would be worth the