Of course it would be important to reduce the size of the gov’t. We can all agree on that. Yes, people pay taxes in other areas, but they are usually consumption taxes like sales tax, etc. The vast majority of revenue from taxation, however, comes from the income tax. If 50% of the people aren’t paying a red cent there, then they have no skin in the game. Meanwhile, the 50% of us that are paying income tax are paying through the nose because we are paying for 100% of the people.
Look, I get there are fixed incomes, etc...that’s part of the point. Taxation is a penalty in many ways, so a little penalty for everyone would get people pissed off. That’s what I want. I want EVERYONE pissed off at the gov’t waste that is going on, but when you don’t pay any income taxes, you don’t care about gov’t waste because you aren’t paying for it. If suddenly a fixed income person has to spend $250 on income taxes, you can bet your ass that they are damn pissed off when their money is wasted because now they have skin in the game.
Most people are pissed off.
Millions of those that once had jobs and are now collecting food stamps and a fraction of what the once made after losing their homes, saving, businesses are pissed off. Not all of these folks are professional takers.
The big problem is the millions now finding themselves out of work, or underemployed, the millions who've lost jobs, homes etc, have no stinking money to give the all consuming monster government..Raise their taxes? What a hoot.
About 30 percent of the country bought the financial farm. Government knows this.
It's one reasons why fat gov is ramping up and going after the wealthy with vengeance now.
We need to shift the discussion from who needs to pay more taxes, to radically and dramatically cutting the size and scope of government spending and control, for the benefit of all.
Ya see, it's Government that is driving all this madness.