Full Description:
When presented with the idea of raising taxes on the rich, the rebuttle is that the rich already pay the largest percentage of tax revenue.
Fallacy Category:
Circular Reasoning - You can't tax the rich because the rich are already taxed.
Appeal to pity - Percentage size implies a burdon that is already too great.
Argument Flaws:
Percentage as an argument:
When somebody starts using a percentage as an argument, they are already in trouble. There is no inherent meaning or implications in a percentage. It does not imply fairness, excess, or anything of the sort. It is a simple measure of a part to the whole. Nothing more, nothing less.
Taxes is only part of the equation:
Simplistic and obvious fact:
When presented with the idea of raising taxes on the rich, the rebuttle is that the rich already pay the largest percentage of tax revenue.
Fallacy Category:
Circular Reasoning - You can't tax the rich because the rich are already taxed.
Appeal to pity - Percentage size implies a burdon that is already too great.
Argument Flaws:
Percentage as an argument:
When somebody starts using a percentage as an argument, they are already in trouble. There is no inherent meaning or implications in a percentage. It does not imply fairness, excess, or anything of the sort. It is a simple measure of a part to the whole. Nothing more, nothing less.
Taxes is only part of the equation:
Simplistic and obvious fact: