[tomp]

No, capital gains taxed less than wages incentivises investment over working. Which IMO is the wrong thing, because it's fundamentally regressive - young, poor but intelligent and educated people can only work, not invest, so we should encourage them by taxing them fairly.

[Godel_unicode]

And you think if you remove the incentive to invest, thus reducing the capital available to corporations, the same number of jobs will exist for those young poor people to work in?

[aaronchall]

I'm pretty confident that we do tax the poor fairly - in fact, thanks to credits, the poorest get a negative tax rate that nets them sizable "refunds".