[muawiyah]

Look, people who benefit from a government service that can't be paid for by the users of that service are FREE RIDERS ~ not the poor schlemiels who don't have enough income to tax.

You put the cart before the horse when you focus on what happens with the federal income tax rather than who uses the government.

Ronald Reagan did America a great favor by beginning the process of removing the personal income tax burden from the working poor!

[elkfersupper]

Ronald Reagan did America a great favor by beginning the process of removing the personal income tax burden from the working poor!

And in the process removed most income tax deductions from everybody and lengthened the depreciation timetables on improved real estate, which arguably contributed to the recent collapse of commercial real estate.