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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is likely to be a controversial opinion, but here goes....

1) There's lots of calls (from liberals) for the wealthy to pay their share, ignoring the fact that the top 10% pay nearly all the taxes, with the top 2% paying the majority. One could argue that could afford to oay more, but this idea that they're not paying their fair share is skewed. They give a LOT.

2) Then of course you have the middle class, who pay a good chunk of their incomes in taxes and get very little, if anything, in terms of government benefits. Relative to their incomes, they give a lot, too. Many are following strict budgets to make sure all the monthly bills get paid.

3) And then we have the lower income, who receive food stamps, welfare, subsidized housing, free medical care, and so forth, without ever paying in a cent. There is an uncomfortable air (for me, anyway) of entitlement, and that they are simply "owed" help from taxpayers because they're poor. I don't think anyone should get off the hook completely, especially when moderate earners are making sacrifices to pay taxes, put food on the table, and pay the rent.

Instead, everyone should have some skin in the game.
- Everyone pays taxes, even a token amount of $100. For those on welfare, we could deduct $8 a month, just as middle class people have hundreds deducted from their paycheck.
- There should be NO free insurance and access to doctors, not while the middle class is crumbling under $20,000 a year in premiums. Everyone should pay $15 a month for insurance, and at least $10 for a doctor's visits. (For those who say $10 is a lot for a poor family, so is a $400 bill for a moderate earner. Everyone has to make sacrifices.)In this way, we will get rid of the entitlement attitude and/or the "poor, helpless me" victim mentality. Even a slight contribution is beneficial to instilling responsibility and the sense of a shared burden.

I expect the liberals will explain why poor people cannot contribute even token amounts, and conservatives will agree with me.

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Does paying his fair share apply to Trump also?  I'm more offended by someone with his lavish lifestyle not paying taxes than by lower income people not paying their fair share.  I'm sure you'll come up with some excuse for Trump though.[/quote]
OP. YES. I'd like to see a minimum required. So....wrong....no excuse for Trump. (Some liberals make a lot of assumptions, it seems.)[/quote]

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