11-15-2009, 11:16 PM
Quote:Ah, yes, the ever popular "regressive tax", that taxes people in *inverse* proportion to their income. At least you'd create an incentive to earn more!It seems that the solution to solving the lack of health insurance, was to put a tax on not having it. So, by the same logic, we can cure unemployment by taxing it as well. And, in fact, we can now end the war on poverty by just declaring poverty to be a misdemeanor and fining any one who is poor. We should have thought of this strategy back in 1933.