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? asked in Politics & GovernmentGovernment · 7 years ago

Should The Poor Pay The Highest Rate In Taxes ?

This way those lazy poor people will get off their rear ends and start working

the harder they work and more they make

then their tax rate will be lowered

Also no food stamps for the poor

only when they work hard

Food stamps for the rich

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  • Jack
    Lv 6
    7 years ago
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    haha, talking like real rich folk do.

  • 7 years ago

    Sure, serfs need to be kept in their place and by starving them, you can get rid of the overhead and make room for more illegals. Since there will be more for the rich, they only have to worry about someone actually growing and producing the things they are enjoying.

    I think the Rich have enough to forego food stamps. Equating the poor to lazy is a stupid argument, I know many rich people who are lazy because they had their money handed to them, and many poor people who work several part time jobs because no full time jobs are to be had.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Proportionality is inherently fair. Everyone should pay 10% of their income, regardless of income amount. The government should be reduced to meet the taxes, not the other way around.

  • 7 years ago

    I do think EVERYONE should pay something... the rich pay nearly all of the Federal taxes and lower half of the country pays ZERO in Federal taxes.

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    No, citizens should pay a flat rate equally regardless of income.

  • 7 years ago

    I think there are some holes in this proposition.

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