> The lowest paid already pay effectively no taxes and your suggestion is to have them pay less? Yes. I believe that being poor is miserable and that we should

> The lowest paid already pay effectively no taxes and your suggestion is to have them pay less? Yes. I believe that being poor is miserable and that we should make the lives of our fellow citizens less miserable. I don’t see any need not to attach strings to it either. There’s nothing morally wrong with saying you have to be a net tax payer to vote, for example. > Do you understand the incentives you're creating when you have only a small minority of productive people subsidize everyone else? It’s not a small minority though. A small minority of people make the most money but something near a majority of people who work for money are net tax payers over their life. The magnitude of their contribution varies enormously but I’d be shocked if most people who work 30 years or more aren’t net tax payers.