Reply #115: Um, no. [View All]

[ThomCat]

He doesn't have a chip on his shoulder.

And if you were right the poor people wouldn't be paying such high portions of their income in regressive taxes and fees.

People make a big deal about INCOME TAX being semi-progressive, and how poor people don't pay income tax. But that is the only example.

We pay the highest percentage of our income on sales tax for necessary items, because we pay the highest percentage of our income on necessary items and have the least discretionary income. We pay payroll taxes like everyone else unless we can't work for cant' find work.

It would be nice if you were right and our fellow democrats who supposedly care about the poor were really willing to make things progressive so that the poor payed less.