People have a range of costs-of living, depending on how much of an installation they are operating. A large house with gardeners and cooks costs a helluva lot more to run than a rented apartment. It can be argued that a healthy, prosperous family needs a second home int heir life-style. To argue that the same family needs seven homes is a lot harder to justify in terms of any reasonable human goals except for pure conspicuous consumption.

But even the most high-scale living has a limit, and if you are bringing down a thousand times your cost of living, then the incremental tax burden approaches meaninglessness, a small part of your entirely discretionary income.

If you are earning barely over your cost of living, then the same per centage tax burden becomes a threat to survival.

If you cannot see the difference between these two states of affairs, relative to the common efforts of building the nation as a whole, then you are too short-sighted to form an informed opinion.

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