[lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end

  • From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 14:13:43 -0400

>  Stan Spiegel wrote:
>
> > The giant tax cuts that have gone to the very very very very rich
> > in America
> > are being paid for by the very very very poorest among us.
>
>To which Brian responded:
>What are you basing this on?  It is patently false statement.

Maybe the problem is what we think of as 'poor'. Earlier (yesterday maybe) 
Ursula wrote:

>The other problem is the sheer amount of money that 3 percent of GDP
>represents.   Imagine a poor family that has to spend fifty percent of
>its income to put a roof over its head.

If this "roof" includes utilities, mortgage and taxes, based on this 
'imagine', most of my friends with young families and myself are poor... 
and we still pay wicked taxes. I'm going to have to complain to my local 
politician. Evidently it IS the poor who are paying the brunt of the taxes. 
I'm sooooo misinformed.

wishing to be middle class, or at least thought of as such.
p


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Paul Stone
pas@xxxxxxxx
Nowhere Land 

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