[Hoot Gibson]

You can’t set parameters in the middle of the game, friendo.

Poor people DO pay taxes - I said it before. Just because they get a refund back on their federal return, for taxes they SHOULDN'T have paid, means that they are going to take that money and put it back into the system. It's just like the pell grant for college. People get the money, they go to school, then they end up paying back more in taxes when they work. It's different when you're talking about the poor but if you're concerned because somebody who might struggle to make a living gets money back that they put BACK into the system - maybe they use that money to repair their house, buy food, gas, repair their car - all kinds of different needs. What do you think they pay on that? TAXES!

I don't know what the national sales tax rate is. Didn't it go up to 7% not too long ago, like the past year or two? I would bet that Donald Trump had something to do with that. Probably the Republican Party with those tax cuts. Probably raised the sales tax to cover the cuts to the rich. He's been in office two years and (other than the rich getting cuts) the middle class and poor are taking the hit. Can you imagine a country taxing the poor? LOL! I can't either but it certainly seems like that's what the goal is right now. Let the rich get by with big cuts and corporations get greedy with the additional money they have in their pockets to give to their CEOs.

So has Donald Trump weakened that safety net?

Answer: Yes.

Poor people don't pay federal income taxes. There is no national sales tax. It really is that simple.

If Trump had eliminated federal income taxes on every federal taxpayer, the poor would have continued to pay federal taxes at the same rate - 0% of their income, and if they had no income, then 0% of $0 income would mean their tax bill would still be $0.

Liberals squeal every time federal taxpayers get to keep more of the money that they earned. They convince poor, under educated voters that if a rich person gets to keep an extra $1,000 of their own money, then Uncle Sam should write them a check for $1,000.

Federal income tax rate cuts should only benefit federal income taxpayers.