How is the current federal income tax fair?

[CarVolunteer]

What you regard as fair is based on what , if anything, you regard as right. Still, I will make a point.

A flat tax without exemptions or deductions, as some propose, would literally take money from some people that they need to live. I cannot regard that as fair.

The argument for representation is one for which I have some sympathy, but ultimately I cannot agree with. Government is about far more than money, let alone how much is raised from whom and how by taxes. At the extreme, it is about people getting killed.

There is no perfection in this world. A progressive tax structure does have the problem that people can vote for policies that that they don't have to pay for, so they don't consider the cost. Still, you have to tax people who have the money.