With all the talk about taxing the rich, we hear very little talk about taxing the poor.
We hear even less about corrupt government Fat Cats lowering taxes and ceasing the long-established practice of purchasing votes from individuals and interest groups with their hands out for money extorted from their neighbors.
They are dealing with the wrong issues first.
It is the printing press that needs to be slowed first...
A gradual slowing of the printing press would be the greatest easing we could get!
I thought the poor were part of he 47% who pay no taxes” It is the 47% who should be paying some taxes If I pay, everyone pays!!
What the government taxes we get less of. What the government subsidizes we get more of. Quit taxing success and start taxing failure. In other words lower taxes on the high earners and raise taxes on the under achievers.
Sowell’s article could easily apply to Obama’s energy policy. Which Romney ignored, is in effect, and now accepted .
I have no sympathy left for the “poor” or the “middle class” in America anymore. I would like to see massive taxes levied on EVERY American citizen, so that they can finally understand just what they are doing to America with their votes. The lefty (and righty) politicians who are spending our nation into insolvency have successfully disengaged about half the population from finacial responsibility. There is no cause and effect to learn from. As long as a large portion of our population isn’t paying their fair share of our increasingly massive debt, their will be no hue and cry from the population, to not only stop the excess spending but also to begin paying off the debt. The unwashed masses in America have been hoodwinked into thinking that “the rich” can afford to pay back the debts incurred by Washington. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you confiscated 100% of the income of the highest 2% of income earners in America, you couldn’t even balance the annual budget. We will never get well until the “poor” and the “middle class” finally start paying THEIR fair share and modifying their voting behavior.
There are a few taxes that tend to effect the poor more heavily than they do the rich, or at least the more well-educated part of the population. They are the lottery and the taxes on tobacco products.
What useless polemicy(?).
Taxing the poor’s ‘rich’ landlords, grocers, employers, etc is taxing the poor.
Everybody knows that, how about someone saying it!
Taxing money from the private sector takes money mainly from the poor no matter who writes the check.