Should We Tax the Rich to Help the Poor

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Should we tax the rich to help the poor? The issue regarding tax has been widely debated all over the world for almost what seems to be forever now. Most of the time, it all revolves around the issue of increasing the tax on the rich in the pursue of helping the poor. Now we see this issue contains several conflicting ideas from either side of the party be it the one that support the motion or the one who are against it (Rall, 2012). We all know that tax is a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions and it is usually use by the government to finance several government’s expenditures such as state infrastructures, law enforcing, social engineering as well as several government’s programs. Seeing our as it is now, there exist two form of society which are the rich and the poor. Be it the rich or the poor they all pay the same percentage of tax either from their income or the services and goods that are being purchased. Adding to the situation is the economic slump in the America which affects the total world economy causing higher percentage of unemployment and recession. This prompt the poor society as well as several concerning individual to questions the fairness of the tax system. They suggest that the government should increase the tax for the rich to help the poor. The way we see it and with ample research evidence to back us up, we do not agree to increase the tax to help the poor. The first reason why we feel that the rich should not be tax more than they already do is because rising taxes on the rich will stifle economic growth. Yes, raising the tax rate on the wealthiest Americans may address a psychological need to punish the rich for being rich. But, if this tax increase succeeds in

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