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Mr Lasastryke posted...

red sox 777 posted...

I don't think I said that. I said that lowering taxes on the working class helps them because they have more money since they can pay less taxes. That seems uncontroversial to me.

ok, i misunderstood what you were saying, then. you were saying that lowering taxes helps the poor, though. does the working class count as the poor?

Yes, I mean the working class. It helps the poor too to the extent that the poor have any taxes to be cut, but in the US they often don't have any "income tax." They do get charged social security, medicare, and sales taxes, which are regressive. IMO, poor people should not have to pay any of these taxes and the actual tax burden as a percentage of income is higher for poor people than the middle class because poor people spend 100% of their income and are paying an effective tax of approximately 25% in CA or NY between those taxes, even without paying a dime of income tax.

And the Republican tax cuts don't help people who don't pay any income tax, because there is nothing to cut and they don't cut the flat taxes we have. So they could certainly do better on that front. But they also didn't raise taxes on the poor.
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