That doesn't make them all equivalent.
> It's funny, you're arguing for progressive taxation, but you don't understand the history
Yes I do, put your phony superiority aside, there's no place for it here.
Communism is not relevant just because we're talking about progressive taxation and that you think is simply shows you're too biased to have an intelligent conversation.
> I do get it though - Americans have been taught to hate communism, and thus have purged an entire century of socialist philosophy from their collective thoughts.
Then you don't get it, because that's not what's happening here. What's happening here is you think you're smarter than you are when you're not even able to engage intelligently in the conversation. A conversation about the fairness of progressive taxation does not have to devolve into a conversation about communism or socialism.
You're taking it there because you have nothing more intelligent to offer. You have no thoughts of your own to offer other than regurgitating what you think you remember from history while pretending no one else is aware of history. Your arrogance is sickening. You're a kid, still in college, and you're acting like no one else has heard of history, grow up and learn to engage like an adult. Have some thoughts of your own. No one is here for a history lesson from a kid who screams communism and socialism every time tax policy is brought up.