by Don Newman

Hawaii Reporter

01/24/05

Quoting Bob Zahradnik, senior policy analyst at the Washington-based Center on Budget and Policy Priorities referring to the current income tax, the line was, 'This income tax burden has the effect of making poor working families poorer ...' 'What's wrong with that statement?' -- one might ask, and you would be right to do so. What is wrong with that statement is that it is biased, too narrow in its scope. The income tax burden in this nation, and in Hawaii in particular, makes not only working families poorer, it makes everyone poorer: poor, lower middle class, middle class, upper middle class, and wealthy alike. It hurts everyone alike, not just the poor...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp