Race is an issue WRT the Tea PArty stuff because it's be made a race issue by the Democrats. The Black Caucus guys walked out through the Tea Party crowd after passing the abysmal health care bill, then claimed they heard 15 racial epithets thrown at them. Considering they were dogged by reporters, with and without tape running, as well as countless people with video capability, not ONE proof of the accusation of the n-word being thrown has been proved. Even with a news service offering $100,000 for taped evidence.
So they have proved they'll make stuff up to try and discredit them.
Are there some racists, loons, or other scumbags that show up at Tea Party demonstrations? Absolutely, I'm sure there are some. There was no shortage of communists at anti-war protests during the Bush Administration, too. Does that mean that everyone against the war that show'd up with a "honk if you want the troops home" sign supported the murder of over 100 million people by communism? No, only those that support communism support that.
Regarding taxes, no one thinks that the poor should pay terrible taxes. The bottom 40-something percent of taxpayers are already a net negative, they can pay nothing—it's better than us paying THEM, instead. Various conservatives have suggested a flat tax—which in all proposed examples has no tax on any income below some value so the poor pay no tax, and the slightly poor pay a lot less. Another proposed tax is the "fair tax" which also includes a provision so the poor pay no tax, and the slightly poor pay a lot less. In both systems, if the poverty level is set at, say, $20,000/year, then the first 20k is untaxed. So if you make twice the poverty level, you in effect pay half the tax rate. 3X poverty, you pay 2/3 the tax rate, etc. (in the fair tax it's a rebate for the tax rate times the poverty level income).
There are other systems I'm sure as well, those are the two you hear about most.
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