Flat Tax VS Progressive Tax

Is a flat tax better than a progressive tax is a big debate when it comes to talking about taxes and what each person should be required to pay. Some people think that a flat tax for all people would be the most fair way for the government to get its money. Others believe that a progressive tax is the right way to go because then they feel it is more fair because say that the rich people who make lots of money should have to pay more than the lower class people who don’t make as much money.

One example from the article that I read was that if someone who makes $100,000 pays a twenty percent flat tax rate, they would end up paying $20,000, and someone who makes $50,000 would have to pay that same flat rate of twenty percent, they would end up only having to pay $10,000. A lot of people think this is the fairest way to do it. Lots of people feel that everyone should have to pay the exact same rate. I see the point here and I do agree that a flat rate is the fairest way for all people when it comes to paying taxes. But, others still think this is unfair because they feel it affects the poor more than it does the rich. A flat tax rate would also be way easier to calculate because it would take away most of the deductions, exemptions, and loopholes that we have with the current system. With the whole flat tax system it would be a lot easier for people to be able to figure how much they would be paying in taxes because you know that it is just a simple flat rate without most of the deductions and exemptions.

Germans VS Japanese

Both the Germans and the Japanese were extremely cruel in the experiments that they performed on these people. Reading these articles you see how inhumane these people actually were during this war at the time. I knew that bad things were happening during the war but I did not know that such bad things were happening. Like, I knew that there were these “doctors” at the German concentration camps but after reading the article about what they did, it makes you think how cruel can people be?

                I did not realize how cruel these Japanese soldiers were but they almost sound worse than the Germans who had concentration camps to hold their prisoners. When the Japanese soldiers went into Nanking, they did some things that other people would not even think of doing to another human being. Cutting people open and performing surgery on them while they were still alive without anything to numb the pain is not something that is okay to be doing to another human being. Some of the other things that they did in put people in pressure chambers until they were dead, spinning people to death, and pouring gas on them and burning them alive. This is not all they did to torture their victims, they also used them for things like bayonet practice, shooting targets, and they used them to test explosives. There is also much more that they did to their victims.

                The Germans were not a whole lot better either. They did a lot of the same stuff as the Japanese did. They also performed surgeries and experiments on their victims while they were still alive. They were also killing people by mass numbers and tried to wipe out an entire group of people. They were brutal to their victims just like the Japanese were. The Germans had things like concentration camps that they would use to kill large amounts of people.

                After it was all done, the worst part is, it that most of the Japanese got off the hook and nothing even happened to them for the things they did. They should have been punished like some of the Germans were.