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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (12026)	12/3/2009 1:18:41 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

>> So you have the innate ability to recognize low income folks? When you see a homeless guy sleeping on the sidewalk do you know he is "low income"? Guess what, you have the innate ability, too! The key point I was making was that when a low income person pays a 6% sales tax it is not inconsequential. When they pay 50 cents a gallon excise tax on a gallon of gas it's a more severe penalty than a rich person paying the same amount. When they pay property taxes, or a share of their rent goes to property taxes to support our schools it's a contribution to our economic well being. Excise taxes on phones, road tolls, all these have an impact. Income tax is just a part of the picture. All true, but when they receive an Earned Income Tax Credit it is a big deal, too -- and that is something that we in the middle class pay for and it hurts us as much as it helps them. We can tolerate the tax burden being dumped on the middle class but it really doesn't seem fair that we're having to literally PAY for the existence of low income/no income/non-working class persons. I understand the need for some unemployment benefits, but not two years. And taking money from the middle class to give to the low-income class is just criminal. Those people ought to work their asses off like the rest of us.