Reply #82: Did you read the post you replied to? [View All]

[sweetheart]

We're exploring a 0% tax up to a cutoff of say 45,000 dollars, and a
flat tax above that. HOw is this holding poor poeple on the screws?

This is not anti-poor rhetoric, that would be the status quo. The
existing system is anti-poor, designed to keep the proletariat broke,
without savings, working month to month. In my own life, i've worked
as an adult cleanup worker in west haven macdonalds, a 2dollar/hour
waitperson at albuquerque dennys and so many working poor jobs, i don't
even record them, except for the pay slips stuffed away somewhere in
old tax folders. I'm more than aware of how the poor get stiffed in the
existing system. Rather here, we have some folks exporing a fair
simplification of the tax system that would foster job creation and
fair treatment of the lowest paid amongst us.

I have as well, formed businesses and been the boss, where i was
confronted with the blizzard of employment-red-tape designed to keep a
steady stream of dosh going to the depository banks, payroll
services, accounting companies and tax filing companies... you might
as well be a lobbiest for those chappies the way you're talking.
The status quo is not progressive.... and all the folks bullshitting
about the progressive tax (that in their religion, they think they
have), are in fact, defending doling out the favours to the wealthy.

For a party of people claiming to be fact-based, on the ground, in
realpolitic, there is some distinctly wooly rhetoric coming from
some quarters here... wholly regressive, wishing for the mythical
great democratic majority in all houses of government to fix it all
up, and unwilling to come to terms with political reality.