Argument For The Poor And Low Income Tax

The infamous debate of taxes stems from one unruly question: should the wealthy pay a greater percentage of taxes than middle and lower income people? Current tax laws are considered a progressive tax structure. This means the more you make, the percentage of taxes progressively increases. According to Forbes, “The top rate will fall from 39.6% to 37%. The bottom rate remains at 10%, but it covers twice the amount of income compared to the previous brackets” (Forbes). People get taxed different amounts depending on their income, which had created a political feud between Republicans and Democrats. One common question that comes up in this debate is “Is it fair for the rich to have to pay more than the poor?” Often times Conservatives want equal

One way people approach this debate is through their religious beliefs. Although the Catholic Church does not has not released an explicit statement of which side they favor, we can use Catholic principles and ideas to come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church would favor the top one percent of wage earners to pay a higher percentage order to redistribute wealth throughout the United States of America. I assume that this would be their position, because one of the Catholic Social Teachings is Option for the Poor and Vulnerable. This encourages them to want more taxes to be collected in order to fund programs to alleviate the struggle that poor people endure. Additionally, if you look at the justice triangle, society owes individuals through distributive justice. This means that the government should be responsible to help individuals—especially those who are not as well off. Another side of the justice triangle is commutative justice where individuals owe other individuals. The top one percent of wage earners should help support other individuals by providing them resources to become more successful. The top one percent of wage earners gets help form the other individuals by having them work for their companies—for example. The final side of the justice triangle is legal justice—where individuals owe society. In this case, the top one percent of wage earners owe society a percentage of the money they earned in order to help fund government-run programs. All things considered, instead of requiring the top one percent of wage earners to pay a higher tax rate, everyone should pay the same rate regardless of their financial status since they already have to pay larger sums of money to the government and often they do not use the government-run organizations that are being funded by their tax