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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a fed and ok with closing the government. Under no circumstances should the GOP get what they want:

[quote]Cutting housing subsidies for the poor by 33 percent as soaring rents drive a national affordability crisis. Forcing more than 1 million women and children onto the waitlist of a nutritional assistance program for poor mothers with young children. Reducing federal spending on home heating assistance for low-income families by more than 70 percent with energy prices high heading into the winter months.[/quote]

The budget cuts should not come off the backs of the poor. Raise taxes on the rich. They have plenty of money and have had numerous tax cuts over the years. The working poor in America are struggling under inflation and out of control housing costs. We can’t have all government money only going towards old people! [/quote]

[b]You bet they should raise taxes on the poor. I'm tired of half the country not paying any income taxes or even getting a refund after paying nothing.[/b]

Working poor?  Everytime I turn around, you're looking to subsidize big business at the tax payer expense by creating subsidies to "help the poor" which ends up in the pockets of the rich.

Your policies of endless printing and spending devalued the dollar and caused inflation in the first place. You were warned about this for decades and now here we are.

You can't handle your housing costs? MOVE![/quote]

Then what we need is a lower limit below which no taxpayer can drop below unless you are below the poverty level.  Let's make it 10%.  Since many people are paying between 22-38%, 10% should be an easy floor.

Now watch all the rich people, like President Trump, who have built a huge infrastructure of tax shelters and writeoffs designed specifically to avoid any tax liability scream bloody murder.  The rich will even illegally lobby and bribe politicians to write more tax write-offs into tax law so that the privileged few can avoid paying taxes.  Did you see how Trump, a self-proclaimed billionaire, only paid $750 in federal taxes in 2017?  The crooked top 0.1% are the ones that are bilking the government.  Typical case where the top should be paying the most into the government (not percentage wise), but in reality are paying virtually nothing.

If you created a tax floor where you could not adjust your tax liability below, then we would not have the tax problem we do.  Do you ever wonder why Republicans always try to cut funding to the IRS?  They know that if the tax auditing and tax collection divisions are stripped, they will be able to continue to fraudulantly avoid paying taxes.  They will tie the collections division up in so much legal red tape with high powered tax lawyers that they'll never have to pay their fair share, or any share, for that matter.   Biden authorized increased funding to the IRS so that they could rehire staff in the stripped down tax collection division  and start to collect the billions of dollars of back taxes and penalties that are owed, but ignored.  And the wealthy Republicans who have been cheating on their taxes for decades hate this idea.

That's where we need to focus.  First on collecting all the back taxes and penalties, second on correctly auditing so that these scofflaws cannot continue avoiding their tax liabilities and finally revising and simplifying the tax code and eliminating some of these extremely unfair codified tax exemptions.  The multi-millionaires and billionaires need to start paying their fair share.  They've been bellyaching for decades about how they pay too much, when they've been barely paying anything at all.[/quote]

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