[familyop]

So how will you get some revenues out of ‘em? Send ‘em to the rendering plants and pet food shelves for government employees to buy, perhaps?

[RC one]

if only it were that easy

[kabar]

Change the tax tables and create a minimum income tax rate. Or better yet, overhaul the entire tax code and replace it.

The reality is that the payroll tax is really an income tax.

Once you exclude more than 50% from paying income tax and use the EITC to subsidize some, the majority will have no problem in increasing the taxes on the "wealthy" and voting for more benefits for themselves. It is called redistribution of wealth or as Obama and his Marxist friends like to say, social justice.