[PEN-L:33217] Re: Bush Administration On The Poor: Pay More Taxes!

["Ellen Frank" <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>New Tax Plan May Bring Shift In Burden
>Poor Could Pay A Bigger Share
>
The Republicans are definitely on to something here.  The
federal tax system is progressive, even counting Social
Security.  Highly progressive without Social Security.  What
is the argument for a progressive tax system?  How does
one even begin to contrive an argument for progressive
taxes without first arguing that the rich get more and the
working classes less than they "deserve"  -- i.,e, that our
economic system is exploitative.  Can you hear the
Democrats making this argument in public?  I can't.
It's hard to talk about redistribution without talking about
exploitation.

Ellen Frank