You are completely right on
everything you said. However, I was only trying to say that it's dumb to complain that tax breaks benefit the rich
because the way our tax system is set up naturally leads to rich people benefitting from any tax break
because they are the ones that pay most of the taxes. It's an inappropriate argument to make to get a politician
out of office...that's all I was trying to say.
When I hear, "Bush supports tax breaks for the rich," the
red-flag goes up. Anyone who took a tax accounting class knows that this is statement is redundant (meaning that
tax breaks favor the people who pay the most taxes...aka the rich via the 80/20 rule). My tax law professor spent
20 minutes showing in graphic detail how tax breaks will always benefit the rich more than the poor because they pay
more money in taxes.
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