It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.
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Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.Nicholas Johnson
In too many states, the poor and near-poor who are working to join the middle class are instead being taxed right back into poverty. For a family in poverty, a few hundred dollars is a lot of money.
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A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.
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Eliminating state income taxes on working families with poverty-level incomes gives a boost in take-home pay that helps offset higher child care and transportation costs that families incur as they strive to become economically self-sufficient. In other words, relieving state income taxes on poor families can make a meaningful contribution toward making work pay.
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