You can not squeeze blood out of a turnip...so your notion that you should tax the poor more is ludicrous.
Originally Posted by WTF
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.