I'm for equal taxation of everyone no matter what their income/salary is! Take wages, salary, business income, dividends, capital gains and so on without deductions and have a flat tax.
1. If you choose to have 5 kids why should I have to pay for them by you paying less tax.
2. If you choose to have an expensive mortage with lots of interest why should I have to pay for it by you paying less tax
3. And the list goes on and on.
Personal accountability and responsiblity for ones actions is the only way for everyone to be thoughtful of their decisions. We currently enable those that don't pay their fair share in sweat and sacrifice to get by because we enable them to be poor decision makers. :|err
The world is changing quickly and we are all becoming the minority no matter what our color is. Check this out...
http://release.theplatform.com/content.select?pid=x7aVOMrlfkkijQwcLllwk6WjB5JE0zrF
Pretty scary stuff for our kids and grandkids I'd say and we make it easy for them because we enable them to be weak by providing for them. The kids of today have come up with the idea of "do overs" when something doesn't work out for them. Geez...what happened to striking out and can't be able to wait to get back up again to tear the pitchers head off...

grn ...we're losing the competitive spirit in this country because we've provided for everyone's weakness.
Back to the topic: Everyone pays their fair share period and screw the progressive penalties the tax system imposes on the successful, hardworking individuals that have made this country strong.