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EricE
lol - News at 11: people who can afford to find ways to avoid laws often do so!

Taxes are a regressive penalty on the poor. Here's a radical idea - how about limiting government spending so we don't have as big a need for taxes?

doopy1
The war machine must be fed a steady diet.
rc2634
Most of the tax collected gets sucked up by the crooked healthcare industry.
GaryTang
I’ll bite when we retreat behind the midpoint on the laffer curve — which I don’t see happening in my lifetime.
BoiledCabbage
Do you have any evidence that the Laffer inflection point isn't already in our rear-view mirror?
imtringued
This is just one of the many tax cuts that Trump introduced. It's not very surprising.