The folks making $25,000 aren't voting anyway.But see, I never said the government should put money into the hands of the less advantaged. I am talking about the government taking more money out of the hands of the less advantaged by raising their taxes, which is exactly what would happen under a flat tax system.
We always hear the Conservatives and their over lords, the uber rich and corporate interests, telling us that raising the marginal tax rate for people enjoying lavish incomes over $250,000 as unfair and detrimental to the economy. Well, consider someone making only one tenth of that $25,000 having 15% of their income confiscated at gunpoint (that's the operative phrase, isn't it?) What happens to their meager spending power then?
And ask yourself, are there more people making a quarter of a million a year or only $25,000? Which group, by shear force of numbers alone, is more capable of spending and stimulating the economy?
Without the quarter of a million a year people, there ARE no $25,000/year people.
The goal is to create more quarter of a million a year people and a climate where people can aspire to prosper more than $25,000/year. You don't do that by punishing success and rewarding mediocrity.
And again, you are ignoring that the $25,000/year people have a great deal of incentive to vote in people who will insure that they keep getting a free ride by punishing the rich. And that is an extremely unhealthy situation.
Much better for us all to share and share alike in the consequences of government action so that there is no advantage to staying poor and no consequence for honorable prosperity.
So why not screw them to the floor by raising their taxes? If raising taxes on millionaires is detrimental, what do you suppose raising the taxes on the poor would do to their buying power? If you're living pay check to pay check, should you be punished? If you're living in a mansion making $250,000 would raising your taxes really REALLY make you hurt? Hurt like someone on a $25,000 salary is hurt by watching his job go to Asia or have to decide medicine or food this month?
Dem po' ol' rich folk needs all da hep we can give 'em! I only WISH I made enough to be in the 35% bracket!
If a 10 to 15% tax above a reasonable automatic exemption 'screws them to the floor', they're already screwed anyway.
And you are naive if you think politiciians who prosper by keeping such people dependent aren't rounding them up and bussing them to the polls.
I don't understand how some seem to turn a blind eye at the destructiveness of creating dependencies among huge segments of our population while failing to understand motivation and incentive for choosing not to be dependent.
What is better. Freedom to choose one's destiny? Or giving that over to the government to do for us?
Our Founders had a very strong shared opinion about that when they drafted and adopted our Constitution.