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Originally posted by 12clicks
The top 5% DO NOT pay 40% of all income tax, they pay 50%
the rich are doing far more for this country than the other 95% combined. It's time the poor paid more or for them to demand the government spend and tax less. after all, the poor have a 95% voice.
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The poor, by definition, are poor. They can barely afford to pay for a sub-par standard of living. They have a 95% voice which is easily manipulated by a government telling them that they are somehow going to benefit from a $300 tax rebate check and a child credit, if they happen to have children or a dual-income family. It's sad, but most of the people who voted for GWB, just by sheer force of numbers, have not benefitted at all from his administration's policies. He will be the first president since Hoover to have a net loss of jobs on his watch. But if he runs enough TV ads, he'll get re-elected. And the poor will still be poor, and the Republicans will dismantle welfare and medicare/medicaid because, as you put it, they simply cannot pay for 'their own' aid and services.
The problem cannot be fixed by taxes, though I am for repealing this recent ridiculous tax cut. We don't need more taxes as much as we need a streamlined, pork-and-fat-free government. If the American public knew how much money leaked out of our current system and into the pockets of individuals, they'd revolt.
- Titus