>>Give the money directly to those who need it, I say.
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>>By what right?
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>>To be provided by whom?
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>Please see the link I posted to Tracy. Obama wants to extend the tax cuts for most individuals. The only ones he wants to end on schedule at the end of the year are on those earning more than $250,000 a year. One of the points the article makes is that, according to the CBO, reducing taxes on those people does not provide very good bang for the buck, as I stated before.

Whatever system you go with the one we now have where a lot of people are having a very hard time but the rich are getting richer could be described as broken.

http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/09/23/forbes-rich-list-2010-are-the-rich-really-getting-richer/