Currently about 46-48% of the people in this country pay NO income tax. This is a real problem because these people never have to be concerned when a tax increase is proposed or is implemented since they won’t pay anyway. When tax CUTS are proposed they howl because they get nothing out of it (you can’t get a tax cut if you don’t pay to begin with)
The solution is to make sure EVERY person who either holds a job OR receives government assistance in any form pays at least something in taxes. Even if it were as little as 1% or half that it would force these people to become engaged and enraged each time the government tried to raise taxes, since it would come out of ther pockets as well as everyone else’s.
The opposite would happen when tax cuts were proposed and instead of being against them (they don’t get them if they aren’t paying as it is now), they would be in favor of them and make their voices heard.
I have read in “Liberty and Tyranny” that the Earned Income Tax Credit was one of the biggest mistakes in the tax system, since it created a class of people who paid no taxes and got money back.