"Bob Crantz" wrote in message
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Who says the rich have to pay taxes at a higher rate?

Democrats, generally.

No where else in society do the rich have to pay more for things like
cars, bread, etc. The cost is the same for everyone for the same product.

Right, which makes a federal sales tax more equitable than an income tax.

How come you want to deny the poor their chance to pay the same?

An odd question. Most people, poor or otherwise, would love the opportunity
to pay less in taxes. But to continue the discussion, the impoverished and
working poor probably should pay a lesser proportion of their meager income
in taxes. There could be exemptions or reductions in a federal sales tax
for the poor. However the rich should not pay a proportionately greater
percentage of their income in taxes. Once again a federal sales tax would
solve this issue. If a rich dude wishes to buy a Bentley Continental, he'll
pay more in sales tax than a dude of modest means purchasing a Ford Focus.
But if they both buy Ford Focuses, they pay the same. That's fair.

The poor should pay more in taxes. They consume more government services
and individually contribute less to society. The poor should pay their
fair share too!

Quintessential Rush Limbaugh--right from his book, "The Way Things Ought to
Be." You might also have noticed that this proclamation was in jest; that
he really didn't advocate taxing the poor proportionately more than others.
His point was that the poor consume more of the federal budget than the
rich, but that simply isn't true. Corporate welfare, roads, bridges, and
other infrastructure built to accommodate big business, tax abatement,
forgiven federal grants and loans to businesses, inflated/bloated federal
contracts to big business, and so on ad nauseum, make individual welfare
(includes Medicare and Medicaid) seem small by comparison. Of course it's
difficult to assess the final cost of such things because they *generally*
contribute to increased production, more jobs, and those jobs pay income
taxes.

Then, of course, you have defunct retirement plans, such as GMs, which will
dig even deeper into the federal coffers.

Go easy on the poor, Bob. I'm unaware of any of them who would not rather
be wealthy.

Max