I commend your efforts with the Victory PAC. However, if you’ll permit me to change the subject, I would be interested in knowing how you reconcile the notion of being “pro-progressive taxation” with the notion of being “pro-equal rights” as your self-description claims. The concept of equal rights means equal treatment before the law. But progressive taxation means different treatment before the law (the tax law) for different income levels – not equal treatment – and is thus a violation of equal rights.

Progressive taxation, as a means of financing government, separates individuals and assigns them different rights based on their income levels. Those who earn less than a certain income level pay no taxes and thus have the right to government goods and services free of charge. Those who earn above a certain income level are denied this right and are forced to pay for whatever government goods and services they receive plus pay for what the lower income earners are receiving. Different rights for different people are not equal rights.

Of course, you could argue that everyone has the right to reduce their earnings to the point where they pay no taxes and thus everyone has the right to those free government goods and services. However, if we all did that, there would then be no taxes paid and no government goods and services would be available. Thus, progressive taxation, as a means of financing government, inherently depends on unequal rights. Progressive taxation can only work by granting the right to free government goods and services to some while denying that right to others – it can only work by applying unequal rights.