Tax code by Beer analogy...

Sanders explains Orangutans tax plan with beer anecdote

There are 10 people in a bar.

Each is there to drink beer.

They agree to pay on a sliding scale.

The First 4 drinkers have to leave and go to work, since they don't have any money to pay for beer.

Drinkers 5, 6 ,7, 8 and 9 sit at a table and order beer.

Drinker 10 sits at a different table and gets a bottle of champagne, a steak dinner, and two prostitutes on the house (Free).

The bill comes:

The first 4 drinkers, who didn't drink anything, each have to pay $1 each just for being invited.

Drinker 5 pays $10.

Drinkers 6 and 7, who each had one beer and split a second, pay $20. $10 for each beer they drank. A partial beer is equal to a full beer so they are charged $20 each since they each had more than one beer.

Drinker 8 pays $30, but gets $10 back.

Drinker 9 borrows money from drinker 10 at 10% interest to pay the remaining $26 of the tab.

Drinker 10 pays nothing, since his lawyers argue that he didn't drink any beer so he doesn't have to pay anything, plus he was at his own table so why should he be part of the bill anyway...