11-14-2002, 11:05 AM
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Originally posted by Eisenschwarz:
Sales tax’s always hit the poorest hardest and the richest least.
For example here in Britain, after Evil Thatcher introduced income tax cuts that benefited the Rich most (where have we heard that one before eh?)
The Tory government had to raise VAT (sales tax) and create Poll tax (V. Unpopular, lead to rioting) to make ends meet.
Now, When you think about it, if you're earning loads of money a year, A drop in income tax can benefit you a huge amount, and since you've got all this money the sales tax don't matter much to you.
But If you're earning less, and there is an income tax cut Not only will you benefit less from it, but since you will have to start paying sales tax at the same rate as the Rich person, You will in the end suffer more.
Why should the Poor end up Paying more than the rich?
Not only that, but Also, the government will end up with less money inevitable if it lowers income tax and try to replace it with a sales tax, This means that it will have to introduce more "stealth" taxes, like raising the cost of Petrol and Public services will decline in quality and ability which once again hits the poorest hardest, while the rich can still pay for private medical treatment.
Of course this also inevitably lowers living standards for the rich & the middles classes as well,
Since upset & poorer poor people get ill more often and can't come to work and prices may rise for example and They riot and commit more crime to name but a few things.
Thus in the end, Everybody loses (although as ever the poorest have most to lose)
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I completely disagree with nearly all of your positions here, unfortunately have not the time to address it all. You support a socialistic idea, I do not.
You plead for the poor, but decry the rich. The US government has no right to take from the rich or the poor, it is not the responsibility of the rich to ensure the poor have a vcr or a stereo system, and the national Sales Tax is not a VAT as described by TL earlier. In the end, I reject socialism, and I reject the idea that the IRS is a good thing or that our INCOME tax is a good thing.
And no Im not rich and I have been poor, was actually considered "poor" by the government for about a decade. Hard work, a little luck and my faith in the system allowed me to get out of that trap.
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