Fifty percent of the people in the country do not pay any taxes whatsoever.
Might that have something to do with why our protests to date are not very effective?
Please reread the argument and understand that there is a big difference in accountability when every American has a stake in how taxes are compared to today when 50% of Americans are actually egging Congress on to raise taxes on the rest of us.
“Please reread the argument and understand that there is a big difference in accountability when every American has a stake in how taxes are compared to today when 50% of Americans are actually egging Congress on to raise taxes on the rest of us.”
I do understand your argument, and if there was a way to have more people paying, to coin a phrase, their fair share (that is the 50% that don’t pay taxes) that would work, I would not be adverse to it. However, at certain low incomes, you can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip. And, I don’t believe that Cain’s 9-9-9 is the way to go at all. We are talking specifically about Cain’s plan, which, to me, has fatal flaws.