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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Are you kidding me? You can't think of government policies that benefit those more wealthy than the average taxpayer? You're not thinking very hard.
But thank you for answering the question indirectly.
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No. Thank you. You can't cite me a single policy that takes a dollar from a poor person's pile and adds it to a rich person's.
The best you can cite are indirect policies like, say, the capital gains tax rate, which you'd say took money from the poor and gave it to the rich, but actually does no such thing. Maybe you'd cite all the deductions the rich can take that the poor generally don't enjoy. Ah, but if you did that, you'd get smacked with the fact that they're a product of your own blessed progressive system, and that - again - they aren't taking anything from the poor.
Why don't you rephrase your point, because I think what you ought to be saying is "There are a lot of govt policies which allow the rich to avoid giving as much money to the poor in the form of govt administered services and benefits as is intended under progressive taxation." That's a lot different than saying the govt is taking dollars from the poor and giving them to the rich.
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