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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (143786)	10/28/2008 4:46:02 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 173976

I'm not sure I understand your question. Government policy can't really determine exactly who bears the effective burden of the corporate tax, they apply it to corporations, but who it actually harms depends on the dynamics of the market. Maybe your talking more generally about how taxes should be said up. Well first of all I think they should generally be lower, preferably much lower, with lower spending as well. Then I would say that in terms of income taxes, the desperately poor should perhaps not be subject to them, but you shouldn't have a situation like that being pushed by both current major presidential candidates, where well over 40% of people (possibly over 50% if you include non-filers) don't pay any income tax. At least not unless taxes and spending are much much lower than they are now. If people are going to vote for candidates to support more government spending they should have to pay part of the price for that spending. OTOH I do think the rich should pay more taxes than the poor (as they do, and as they have just about always done)