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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
Actually, a sales tax would APPEAR TO BE a fair tax. But, like all flat taxes it in reality punishes the lower wealth people who own almost NOTHING SO must buy clothes, food, school supply and etc. Think about what % of their small income that these necessities represent. (it is HIGH)
..........Now think about what % food and clothes mean to a rich UBER 1% ER. Food and school supplies to them represent about NOTHING as a % of their GIANT incomes.
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Not punishing----making them pay their
fair share. Again, why do some believe they deserve a share of other people's money, achievements and success just because they were born????? You want something---go out and EARN it. Instead, we've creating and entire culture of handouts. We even go out of the way to conceal this---for example EBT cards. Why---because they felt pulling out those old food stamps at the grocery checkout was "embarrassing". Good--let them be embarrassed. Maybe it would be an incentive to get off welfare. When welfare was started in the 30's as part of the "new deal", it was a social safety net to prevent starvation in the streets. You got a subsistence living, no more---a cold water flat, a ticket to the government bread and cheese line, no radio, no telephone, no luxuries. Those people would take ANY job to get off "the dole". It was a social stigma and so it should have remained. Instead, we now have 4th generation recipients. And what's worse, they expect it and believe they "deserve" it.