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Originally posted by Moses
I have no idea why that's legal. Essentially they pick out a group of taxpayers and disallow deductions for state income tax and property tax. In California, that's BIG.
Oh, no. They only make 'Rich" people pay AMT. The problem is the 'middle class' of today is now 'rich'.

Think hard. Find a tax that was not originally designed to 'soak the rich'.

Poll Tax is the only one I can think of.

What else?
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