[gnepon]

Fairness here usually refers to the inequality left over after tax, not the tax amount itself. When the US is the 127th most unequal country out of 168 measured (by the Gini Coefficient), along with still having abject poverty around, it's not overly ideological to say more distribution needs to happen.

[refurb]

There is no objective definition of fairness.

That’s your definition

By your definition if someone works 40 hours, after taxes they should have the same amount as someone who worked 20 hours.

That doesn’t seem fair to me

[gnepon]

This is the kind of extreme internet Libertarianism that's dangerous in the real world. Not practical or concerned with extreme poverty through inequality, but preferring to fight on first principles, like all tax being theft (not your claim, but equatable).

I'm less concerned about the definition of fairness and more concerned about real human suffering.