Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf View Post
Don't forget all the hidden taxes and taxes that hurt the poor more. A poor person pays a far higher proportion of their income on VAT than a rich person and usually on inferior food. If you are poor you are more likely to drink and smoke. Again significant tax burdens. In the UK everyone has to drive if you want a job and have you seen the tax on fuel. People in expensive cars pay the same amount on fuel as poorer people. Council tax is pretty much the same for the man in a mansion as the man on the run down estate. The biggest one is inflation which hurts the poor far more and when the super rich have doubled their wealth in a decade and the poor are poorer that is a massive tax.

The system is messed up and it hurts the poor guy. Even if he pays no income tax he still struggles in a central bank run government monstrosity.
No doubt the system is fucked up but we don't have vat in the us. You have points but don't grasp the us tax code. I've been dealing with it all my life from little income to decent income. I payed a much lower rate when I made less. You will prob come up with opposing points but I'm telling you how it is here. Until 1913 income was not constitutional and the us got revenue from tariffs. Go ahead tell me how I'm wrong on what I've known and payed all my life along with my friends family and enemies