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Originally Posted by WTF
You can not squeeze blood out of a turnip...so your notion that you should tax the poor more is ludicrous.
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Nice Cliche but people aren't turnips. They are dynamic and resilient. Most have vices(especially the indigent) that they can sacrifice.
According to the US census bureau in 2012 16% of Americans were under the poverty level. That's also happens to be close to what the "real" unemployment rate is considered to be. If only 50% of people are paying any tax then why aren't at least the other 34% not paying something.
I don't care if they only have to pay 1 dollar in taxes. If that means they spend an afternoon or weekend picking up cans or not buying a lotto ticket to do it then at least they will have a vested interest and hopefully a real concern about how that dollar is spent. If someone came to me truly broke and I was convinced of that I would give them some work to do to earn what they needed to pay their dollar plus some.
Some people just have come to expect the handout. I get people coming into my business from time to time asking for $1 or two to buy milk for their baby(which I never see) but when I offer them $20 to mow my grass for an hour they bail.
I'm not against charity, I'm against the government providing charity.
I thought that Bush's faith based initiatives dove tailing off of Clinton's successful welfare reforms were the right way to go. We were getting to a point of giving a hand up not a hand out. What happened?
Buying votes is what happened.