gekkogecko

you do point out some of the problems that do occur in reality...but you ended up going to the opposite extreme that Irish was trying to represent. I think that the US is somewhere in that grey middle ground between your two examples.

I am big favorer of tax cuts, but do not think in today's political spectrum of the "low" class getting them too that they work. The biggest flaw in your theory gek is your last statement

"You bet your sweet ass our tax system exploits the poorest and middle income people. That's how our tax system REALLY works."

while I do believe that the middle income brackets do have an unfair burden With them sitting back while the lower brackets get their "bonuses" and the higher brackets get their "tax breaks" the lower bracket is by no means exploited.

If a lower income person or family does their taxes correctly they can easily get back 5 times as much as they pay in. My cousin, one of those many non-workers out there, who with her 2 kids chooses not to work much (personal choice of hers created by the "welfare" mentality...a whole other subject), paid in $840 to the IRS last year. When a few weeks ago she was bragging to me how she with the various family tax credits got a refund check back for $5,840....

Last time I checked a refund was a return on something you paid...must be the new math...

So if you figure this into an average middle income person (like myself) in order to take home that....I would have to make between 9-10,000 dollars before taxes... that just doesnt jive to me.

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