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How does that not make sense? Everybody should pay in, even if just a little.
Governor Brownback in Kansas had/has a plan (not sure of its status) to get more Kansans paying into the state income tax. It's actually genius, in my opinion. Under Brownback's plan taxpayers making less than $25K per year would go from leeching $2 million more than they ever pay in via refundable tax credits, to actually CONTRIBUTING $80 million in taxes as a group! At what price? A mere average of $156 per year increase. In my opinion, that price is well worth it for a group that is leeching (even if no fault of their own) to contributing proudly and doing their part, even if it is small. THIS is the sort of plan that needs to be put into effect in Washington DC. Of course, the local naysayers screamed when the plan was presented about taxing the poor. God forbid they contribute.
See this thread for Romney's version for the federal level:
Even the progressive state of Massachusetts has a non progressive income tax. Every worker pays something.
I'm not familiar with Massachussetts' formula of taxation, but every worker paying in doesn't mean a tax formula is not progressive. A tax structure that a certain group doesn't contribute or gets more back than they paid in (refundable tax credits) is too 'progressive' in my opinion, which is not actually 'progressive'. Creating a dependent class and redistributing wealth to create some sort of equality is not the way to go. Good jobs are the way to go, or even a new minimum wage.
I should add that your lack of understanding is very telling ... open that narrow mind of yours and you might just understand where these folks are coming from.
Tea Party Patriots: One more example of how the GOP insiders and elites stole the movement right out from underneath the real Tea Partier's noses and they didn't even see it happen:
Everyone should pay something, I don't care if it's just $1. They definately shouldn't get a "refund" of more than they pay in. You want to redistribute my money? Call it what it is.
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