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Tax the poor

November 29th, 2002 · No Comments

Could it be true that the next big Republican issue could be the unfairness of allowing poor people not pay federal income tax? The Wall Street Journal is apparently complaining that poor people aren’t sympathetic to the high taxes paid by rich people because they don’t pay federal income tax themselves. One contrarian position is that poor people don’t sympathize with rich people because they’re poor.