| mrstickball said: $500 to a person that makes ~$75,000+ a year is far less of a problem than $300-350 to a person that makes $20,000-$50,000. It's all about cost of living: If you make more, you have more disposable income. If your poor, you have far less. But this tax on energy will do far more to hurt the poor barely making ends meet than the rich, which consume more. |
So...let me get this straight.
I have seen you a ton of times argue how more taxes on the rich are bad.
Now you are saying that more taxes on the poor are bad.
And this is really nothing but a consumption tax (the more energy you use the more you will have to pay), so I take it you are against consumption taxes too.
Is there any tax you do support? Based on these arguments, you would also have to be against a fair tax as it would hurt poor people more.
You know that a true fiscal conservative is willing to raise taxes to pay down the national debt right? Even since the Bush Sr. years our debt has been too large to solve just by cuts in spending alone. So I honestly don't consider you to be a fiscal conservative, and find it pretty disingenous that you try to pass yourself off as one. I just consider you to be anti-tax.
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