- Jan 12, 2012
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Poverty is a make work project for the rest of us and should be abolished.Raise everyone's taxes (even mine). Even the poor should pay some taxes.
I reported income of over $100,000 last year, yet my effective tax rate was only 14 percent, and I file as a single person. Instead of 'taxing the rich' the government has to pass laws that deal with the hemorrhage of money out of the country, namely the trade deficit, remittances, and drug money.
All those losses are backfilled with government debt.
No representation without taxation, to me, should be forcing the U.S. government to insure that even the poorest can afford to pay some minimum tax, otherwise they cannot actually recognize them as citizens.