Note that I am for fair taxation
I think everyone is for "fair" taxation. The problem is that people disagree as to what is fair.
- For some, no taxes at all is the only fair system.
- For some, Fair taxes are where everyone pays in the same amount.
- For some, flat taxes (everyone pays in the same percentage of their wealth) are ideal.
- Some hold that progressive taxes (where the rich pay not only more than the poor, but a larger percentage of what they have) are best.
- Some say that the more even the wealth distribution is, the fairer it is, with communism being the only truly fair system.
I think that when most people talk about fair and vote for politicians who promise it will be "fair" when it gets right down to it, they mean they want someone else to pay and they do it by voting rather than coming right out and showing up at Bill Gates' door with pitchforks.
In short, they want someone with more income than they have to be forced to pay for something they want, but don't want to pay for. Then they use lots of excuses to justify it.
:-)