Monday, February 28, 2005
To : Tax Reform Panel
From Carl Kruhm
Subject: Basic comment
As a retired public school teacher and Sunday School teacher I am concerned that basic
morality is readily apparent in our tax code.
If paying for what you get and getting what you pay for are two sides of the same moral
coin, why should not the rich pay more taxes than the poor? The rich get more from our
common infrastructure and the common good will of all US worker/contributers (not to
mention those dead or wounded in war) than the poor receive, just by the fact that the rich
are able to work the system more successfully (or their forebears did). Progressive is
moral; dominating the weak is not.