Government Can’t Rescue the Poor
“Last year a United Nations investigator using census data found ‘shocking’ evidence that 40 million Americans live in ‘squalor and deprivation,’ in a country where ‘tax cuts will fuel a global race to the bottom.’ He continued: ‘The criminal justice system is effectively a system for keeping the poor in poverty,’ and reported that ‘the demonizing of taxation means that legislatures effectively refuse to levy taxes.’”