re: #150 Vicious Babushka

Poor people pay a greater percentage of their income in taxes than someone who makes more than a million dollars. The millionaire may be paying more total dollars, but as a percentage of their income, it’s costing them less.

The GOP is hoping to further intensify that discrepancy by cutting rates for the wealthy while shifting the tax burden on to those who can least afford it (as Jindal attempted to do by eliminating the income tax and shifting the tax burden into sales and use taxes as well as excise taxes on liquor and alcohol - before withdrawing the proposal and demanding the LA legislature draw up something similar).