God , this is getting tiresome. 1. I don't really worry about the "poor" . My affiliations and my Gov't see to them. 2. I have no idea what the fast food workers in my area make...I don't eat there and I don't associate with them. 3. I don't personally know anyone who makes minimum wage. The wages I pay my people are higher...always have been. 4. No, $320.00 per month will not solve all the world's ills. But it may keep someone, who wants to work, just a little bit above water for just a little longer while he/she is learning a new skill or trade or whatever they need to "learn to fish" as you are fond of saying. 5. I just have a problem begrudging some poor schmuck $7 and change an hour, when Lee Raymond retires with $400,000,000.00. But that's just me.
Post liberal loser talking points and get your panties in a wad because I identify them as such,"sensitive ain't ya". btw: This is where you get a chance to prove me wrong by stating your opposition to "the nanny state", confiscatory taxation and raising the min wage.
Homework? I think you're the one who needs homework and some enlightenment. Feed on this: http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2879
Some other time, perhaps. I'm sure I'm no match for you. Just finished off my Jack and my stogie and I'm off to bed. Nite, folks.
Well, evidently you are no match . Just too hard to disavow those liberal pillars,eh? btw: This is where you get a chance to prove me wrong by stating your opposition to "the nanny state", confiscatory taxation and raising the min wage.
Ah, the old denying a valid claim fallacy. No, I corrected YOU. Please read the article--and I have others, if you need more--that refute your claim about the poor not paying taxes. Some taxes hit the wealthy more, such as the federal income; but others are more punishing on the poor (it varies per state). There are many, many articles out on the web about Alabama Gov Bob Riley's (a Republican and former US rep) so-far unsuccessful attempt to reform Alabama's regressive tax system. Some states have taxes that hit the poor much more than the wealthy. Some of these states are your typical Southern conservative old plantation states such as Mississippi and Alabama, but some are not.
I find it humorous when lefty losers try to lay claim to conservative values and then spend all their energy on promoting leftist idiotology.
By definition ALL taxation is confiscatory. That which is given by one's own free will is called charity. Everyone pays taxes, and everyone is helped in some way or another by the "nanny state." That is the way our government is. Liberals support "nanny government," and conservatives do as well. Liberals in general want to use government to assist the disadvantaged; conservatives want to use it to give a bigger boost to the already advantaged; and moderates like me just shake our heads and pray for gridlock. If you don't like paying taxes here in this "nanny state," hire a lawyer, renounce your US citizenship, and move abroad. Good luck finding a country that provides so much for so little a tax burden.