>>It may become hard to convince people who don't pay taxes that my taxes are too high. The situation is quickly approaching the point when majority of voters will pay no income tax but their vote will set taxes for minority (taxpayers).
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>Do you have some evidence for this?
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>FWIW, that's how income started. It was originally on only the very top earners. I forget the stats, but like 2% of the workforce.
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>Tamar

I am a bit confused. You ask for evidence and then call it self-evident by historical example.
By the way, we could go deeper to the history. One smart person (I can confuse names here, so no name, sorry) said somewhere in 4th century BC that democracy ends when citizens grasp the way to vote themselves subsidies from the public treasury. He lived in Athens, probably was a taxpayer, and knew accordingly from where these subsidies originate.