re: #142 lostlakehiker

Today, the working poor do pay into social security, but they also get benefits at the other end. So that’s a wash, not really a tax.

It is a tax. That one benefits from that tax doesn’t mean that it’s not a tax. I do not understand why you keep trying to push this meme.

Tariffs are quite low on most of what they’d by.

Proof, any?

. Gasoline tax again isn’t really a tax, it’s the toll on a toll road, collected somewhat indirectly.

Man, you just love calling taxes ‘not taxes’ in order to prove the poor don’t pay taxes. Why is that? A ‘toll on the road collected indirectly’ is, indeed, a tax. You don’t get to redefine a tax is just so that you can try to prove poor people don’t pay any taxes.

They do draw on benefits; medicaid, AFDC, school lunches, etc.

Except, of course, for a member of the working poor who doesn’t receive any medical treatment and has no kids.

So right now, the rich and the near-rich are the main source of federal tax revenue.

Because they are the main people who have income. It’s pretty simple.