There is no morally just tax rate. A religious friend once said to me that "as there is no moral good in reality, all that we can hope for is that people are so deluded in their attempts to discover reality, that they think, with a religious fervor, that there IS an absolute morality, which just happens to be welfare maximising...this, they will blindly follow…"
I found this a startling admission - not to mention an odd statement to reconcile with his own religiousness - a very strange life philosophy.
Not to mention how challenging and deceitful it would be to try to bend their own perceptions of some absolute moral good in to continuously-changing "welfare-maximising" outcomes...
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