No.This was exactly the response I was expecting and giving more does not equal pay more taxes.
Putting an equal sign between helping your peers/being altruistic and paying taxes is the logical flaw in my opinion.
I argue that paying taxes is not the most effective way of helping others and therefore whether I believe becoming rich is a matter of luck or not becomes irrelevant in regard to whether rich should pay high taxes or not.
Though of course not everyone will have my views on that matter and therefore a subset, however big, will follow your line of thought instead, meaning the number of happy-to-pay-tax people would increase if their perception of luck changed as proposed in the article.
However what I'm arguing against is that A >necessarily< leads to B. As it does depend on other factors too.
Putting an equal sign between helping your peers/being altruistic and paying taxes is the logical flaw in my opinion.
I argue that paying taxes is not the most effective way of helping others and therefore whether I believe becoming rich is a matter of luck or not becomes irrelevant in regard to whether rich should pay high taxes or not.
Though of course not everyone will have my views on that matter and therefore a subset, however big, will follow your line of thought instead, meaning the number of happy-to-pay-tax people would increase if their perception of luck changed as proposed in the article.
However what I'm arguing against is that A >necessarily< leads to B. As it does depend on other factors too.