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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Alighieri who wrote (17119)4/20/2010 10:48:42 AM
From: Lane32 Recommendations  Read Replies (3) of 42652
 
that's what the article is talking about, ok? The morality of taxing the poor.

No, that's not what the article is talking about. We've been over this before. That piece is not about the morality of taxing the poor. You may choose to read it that way but you're inserting your own biases/reading comprehension shortfall into it. What it's talking about is the unhealthful incentive created in a scenario when voting majorities can effect transfer payments from minorities to themselves.

If you want to make a case about morality of taxing the poor, go ahead and make it. But don't distort what that author wrote. To the extent that the piece suggests anything about morality and the poor, it's about the morality of the middle and lower classes taxing the rich.
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