Quote:The idea that you'll pay a few percent more only on the next $10,000 you make than the last $10,000 you made will somehow disincentive you from going ahead and accepting the rest of those thousands of extra dollars shows the ridiculousness of your position.

 

You're making ideological arguments that don't hold in practice.

 

The real question is earnings against quality of life improvement, taxation is only of extremely marginal consideration for whether anyone chooses to work more hours.

 

That last little disclaimer in your response is the point. The only way an individual is going to get out of poverty is by working more hours. Very few salary individuals are below or near the poverty line it's the hourly worker that struggles at the poverty line.

 

The fact that as they TRY to work more hours to get out of poverty they are taxed MORE and then penalized by receiving LESS assistance is WHY a production tax keeps the poor in poverty. 

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