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Hold on there! The wealthiest are the wealthiest because they have assets. Yes these facts show that asset ownership is disproportionate but these stats do not correlate assets to income earnings and taxation rates. Most of us, even the higher income earners, have as much or more debt than assets.
But regardless, as much as I think your notion is one of the better arguments I have heard, why should someone with more assets pay a larger amount for the same service? The government provides services to each person equally. They do not give a higher level of service to a person with more assets. Nor do they put a higher value on his or her life. Each citizen benefits from the courts, the armies, the police such that they are free from oppression. Each benefits from the infrastructure such that they can move about earning a high or low income.
It is interesting though, that we use a form of asset taxation to raise municipal taxes. But the guy in the nice house certainly doesn't benefit from the extra he pays...
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