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Jfc, you assholes are so purposely deceitful. You damn well know the poor pay taxes: excise, property, payroll, and sales taxes.

Again, how do you wring blood out of a stone?[/quote]

Don't give me that poor crap. Close to half the country is not contributing to the revenue base and that's economically unsustainable. Stop pleading poor at every discussion on just how far out of whack the numbers have become.

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+ 1 We are now in a spot where half the people are "too poor" to contribute to the federal revenue base and liberals don't see a problem with that? Sorry, but [b]if a poor person can afford to buy a $200 pair of sneakers, he can pay $100 to the government instead and "sacrifice" with a $100 pair. [/b][/quote]

I'm old enough to remember the old "welfare queens driving cadillacs" argument against paying for poor people's health care back in the 1970s. Your example smells like it was pulled from the same sewer.

Poor people--I don't know if you know this--don't have much money. They live in shitty neighborhoods, attend shitty schools, are badly educated, often speak poorly because of their terrible education, so can't get jobs that pay more than minimum wage (which is not a living wage), and thus they remain poor. The exceptional poor person who gets lucky with a combination of brains and a chance to attend a good school may find a way out of that cycle of poverty, but most poor people are not so lucky.

If these poor people could find jobs where they earned a living wage, could live in neighborhoods where crime wasn't rampant, could attend good schools and get a good education (which Betsy DeVos is trying to make even more difficult by limiting funding for public schools), they'd get better jobs, pay higher taxes and you wouldn't be bitching about the fact that they can't afford to pay income taxes on their piddling wages.

Your stupid example shows how ignorant you are about the lives of people who are poor. Spend a few years working in an inner city neighborhood, and you'll start to see these people as regular working human beings who are struggling against a system where the deck is stacked against them. Sure, the best and brightest may escape poverty, but the rest of the average joes are not going to make it without help from people who have more resources. They are not freeloaders (unlike those spoiled rich kids who inherit millions -- what do you call them?), they are mostly people with few opportunities and little education who are mired in a system they can't navigate their way out of. Why are you so callous towards people you've never met, many of whom look different from you? Why don't you try going out and meeting these people, spend some time talking with them, figure out how nice and kind and generous and welcoming many of them are, how hardworking and peaceful and really great people they are -- before you condemn them solely because they are poor, with little education, who need help from more affluent and educated people?

If you're a Russbot, OK, I get it. If you're just an asshole, I get that too. But it would be helpful to you as well as the world if you'd try to regain some of your humanity.

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