Re: How many of you would support a poll tax in place of our current income tax?

From: robert j. kolker (nowhere_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:55:37 -0500

xyzer@hotmail.com wrote:

> I don't see why having poor people ruins the poll tax idea. True, in
> effect, the system would make it to where lots of poor people weren't
> participating in paying taxes, but if we as a society say that that is
> morally the thing to do, then that's ok.

It is The Regressive Tax from Hell. It is unrelated to ability to pay.
Give it up. It will never fly in a democracy.

Bob Kolker

>

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