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Originally Posted by Skerlnik
I dunno. I've heard so many conflicting tax rates bandied about, it's hard to determine exactly who pays what.
However, if your figure is correct, things are about as they should be. I think I do favor a progressive tax structure of some sort. I'm not terribly inclined to hose the poor.
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Nobody wants to "hose" the poor, but making them pay their fair share (ie, the same percentage of their income as the rest of us) would be a nice start. I don't owe them anything more than they owe me, so why exactly am I paying for their food, housing, medicine, AND paying a higher tax rate? Seems to me that those recieving government assistance should be the ones paying for the services, be it through dollars or days of service.