I didn't say that the wealthy shouldn't pay.... this isn't an either/or issue.
As far as how this impinges on the poor, I don't wanna make it sound like I'm some didactic tut-tutting moralist.... but part of the reason why poverty is so hard to break is that the poor (some of them, not all) throw their money away on lottery tickets, booze, cigs... all stuff that bleeds their income, what there is of it. This is just a cold impartial fact. I see people blow thirty bucks and more at a time on the damn scratchcards every time I visit the local package store.... people living on fixed incomes. Legalized gambling is still gambling... it favors the 'house' at the expense of the players.
But AGAIN! I have to keep yammering away at this point, because nobody's acknowledged it yet, the biggest single drain on the poor is the outrageous real estate price hikes of the last decade. Compared to that, a few extra bob for alcohol is nothing.
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