I think a much better analogy of what's fair when it comes to taxes is this. Imagine a small african village is moving somewhere. The male adults hold a basket that's 100 pounds, the female adults 60 pounds, and the kids 10 pounds. This is everyone carrying their fair burden. 10 pounds might only be 1/15 6.6% of the child's weight. Whereas 100 pounds might be 50% of the adults weight. But the child cannot lift half of their weight. Society functions best on a progressive system where the more you have the higher percentage you pay.To address one point; fairness usually means everyone does the same thing without exception. A fair tax would be everyone paying the same amount of money. Now a government cannot likely rely on everyone paying the same solid lump sum, so it works by percentages of income. A/The "fair" tax is when everyone pays the same percentage on their income.
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