You can't possibly argue that poor people consume more in absolute terms thus you must mean as a percent of wealth. The relevant measure: http://en.wikipedia.o

You can't possibly argue that poor people consume more in absolute terms thus you must mean as a percent of wealth. The relevant measure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_propensity_to_consume http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_propensity_to_consume ...allows society through its elected representatives to make such investments and to invest... Which is irrelevant to this conversation since we are discussing taxing people to pay for consumption.