Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but the poor don't pay much (income) taxes on the first place--cutting them to get to those sorts of numbers may be a negative i

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but the poor don't pay much (income) taxes on the first place--cutting them to get to those sorts of numbers may be a negative income tax rate. As I understand it, the problem is pretty dumb to have: the imbalance is such that, without significant improvements and expansions of governmental services, there's no money to extract. We have a hand-to-mouth debt peasantry in this country. It's stark once you start digging into the numbers.