03-01-2011, 09:14 AM
DaveS wrote:
I will only ask at what point do "poor" people need to contribute?
Why do "poor" (I don't know why you put it in quotes) people need to contribute? Most of the wealth is concentrated at the top, therefore, it makes sense that they pay most of the taxes. They would pay most of the taxes under almost any system. Even a flat tax.
You can increase the taxes on the poor, if that's what you want to do in the name of fairness, but what does that accomplish? It makes the poor poorer and more reliant on social programs. So you're sucking money from the people who have the least so you can give it back to them.
Sounds very inefficient to me.