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It can be argued that the percentage of the poor who attend university is high considering the percentage of taxes that they actually pay ( compared to those wh

• paganel 8y ago
  That's why I added the indirect taxes thing, which generally it's a regressive and largely unescapable tax on the poor no matter what the Government decides to do with the money. Also, if I were to be a marxist (which I'm not, quite the contrary, even though I do have a genuine admiration for Marx's thought) one could say that the well-off have myriad other ways of "taxing" the poor which don't necessarily involve direct monetary transactions, like asking those members of the poor class (not sure what today's equivalent term would be) to work on top of their agreed-upon working hours with no monetary compensation (I have a feeling that the poor are a lot more likely to do over-time without compensation compared to Silicon Valley people or to big-firm lawyers).
  • whiddershins 8y ago
    That last part is obviously untrue. In general, poor people do not work long hours. In general, corporate management employees work very long hours.