When the wealthiest citizens can design tax shelters, Swiss and otherwise, and the poorest can either pay no taxes or receive refunds, the burden of generating US tax revenue falls squarely on the shoulders of the middle class. That same middle class essentially made up of those hardest hit by today’s correcting economy.
Taking From the Broke and Giving to the Jobless
When the wealthiest citizens can design tax shelters, Swiss and otherwise, and the poorest can either pay no taxes or receive refunds, the burden of generating US tax revenue falls squarely on the shoulders of the middle class. That same middle class essentially made up of those hardest hit by today’s correcting economy.
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