Bush: "Let's Screw The Poor. I Mean, More."

[bobquasit]

I'd heard rumors, but I can't believe that even Bush would be so open about "considering" replacing the federal income tax with a national sales tax.

Of course this would be incredibly regressive; it would make life for the poor and middle class in America even more difficult, and in some cases probably impossible.

That bastard has no shame or conscience at all, and he really thinks (or does he know?) that the public and the media won't ever catch on, no matter how much he and his gang of criminals screw everyone.

Comments

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

Was going to argue, decided pointless,
mostly, eh, why not.
High ticket items _already_ have extra taxes on them. A tax only on "luxuries"
to entirely make up for the income tax would be absurdly high. And as the
general trend has been to move the tax burden from the wealthy and corporations
to the middle and working class, I can't see that those with influence
would allow a tax that would really only affect the rich, leaving the rest
of us to be "lucky duckies."

Basically, a properly done income tax is the "fairest" in that, yes, it
takes most from those who have benefited most. "Taxes are the price we pay
for civlization" (that's supposedly from Oliver Wendall Holmes). The present tax
system needs fixing, but replacing it with a system that will not in fact
charge the wealthiest more and will at the very least make it harder for
the rest of us to afford little luxuries is _not_ a social good by any
stretch.

(Let me immediatly concede defeat in the argument, by the way. I know darned good and well
that I'm not going to change anybody's mind with this, I totally suck at debate.)