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In reply to the discussion: The USA only has one fiscal problem: Lack of political will to tax those who have all the money. [View all]7962
(11,841 posts)A MH park I help service is full of low income families. EVERY year most get back 6-12 thousand dollars from the IRS. They're eager to tell you about it too. And you're right, they spend it. usually not very wisely, but they DO spend it.
We've already got 50% of the workers paying zero or negative income taxes.
There simply arent enough "rich" to make much of a difference in paying down the deficit or debt. We also have way too many professions that are not taxed anywhere NEAR what they actually should be, because they are self reported income earners.
Nothing is going to change as long as we continue to lower the number of people who contribute to running the system. The rich will ALWAYS find a way out when it gets too high in their opinion