The 300% Rule

[ck4829]

Why is it that every time we want to do something to help the poor, the Republicans block it, saying that there needs to be a tax cut for wealthy people and corporations.

Case in point - Republicans blocked our minimum wage bill citing no tax break for the more well off

It's like every time we try to help the poor, they counter it with tax cuts for the rich so the status quo can remain the same, money won't change hands, and so the poor will stay poor, and the rich will stay rich.

So, that's why I came up with the 300% rule, we'll focus our tax code on the well-off, and every cut the Republicans propose, we will then counter with a tax cut that is is 300% more for people who earn less than $100,000 a year. I'm hoping that the lower classes won't have to pay any federal taxes, and it will be the equivalent of a social experiment the elites in our society don't want us to try, the opposite of trickle down, percolate up.

[Bill McBlueState]

1. They should have to walk a mile in someone else's shoes

There should be a "trading places" program, where senators have to spend a year being poor. I think our wealthy ruling class really doesn't understand what it means to have to choose between food and rent.

They complain about progressive taxation, but I don't think they understand how the anxiety of not having enough to eat is different from the anxiety of having to contribute a few extra percent of your millions to the government.

[Dhalgren]

2. And the wealthy seem to think that they created their money out of

thin air, instead of having gotten it from the society they seem to loath. The rich are thieves and the sooner we start treating them that way, the better for this society...