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Who sucks more from the government teat - a rich man getting tax credits and subsidies, or a poor man getting?
a few hundred dollars in food and housing...
11 Answers
- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
Obviously it makes more sense to help someone who doesn't make enough to help himself than it does to help someone who could help himself and 10-100 others.
- ?Lv 44 years ago
the destructive oftentimes do not care if the wealthy get taxed greater. the wealthy certainly care although that they are buying government courses that they are ineligible for because of the fact they have been effective in existence. to assert that maximum of the wealthy do not care approximately destructive people is asinine. The Untied States is stated to be interior the utmost in donations to charity. the difficulty is we don't desire government MANDATED CHARITY.
- pdoomaLv 78 years ago
Seems like it's not the government's job to give either group the teat to suck on.
- ?Lv 78 years ago
I guess both.
Note: most rich people do not get subsidies from government and pay taxes.
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- Anonymous8 years ago
Tax loopholes and deductions give away 50 % of the revenues . If we ended tax loopholes we could raise the same amount of current revenues and lower tax rates by 30 %
- Anonymous8 years ago
It depends, a guy who pays 65% in state, federal, and local taxes that gets a 3% tax break definitely isn't a moocher.
- 8 years ago
The rich man becuase he doesn't pay any taxes. They said that Mitt Romney didn't pay any taxes....well, he paid millions but I don't beleive it.
- ?Lv 78 years ago
So when I got a tax credit worth about $5,000 last year but still paid more than $200,000 in other taxes, I'm getting away with something? Try again.