The Poverty Tax, a GOP staple aka a Casey Cagle Tax Increase

Saxby Chamblis and several southern Republicans of the House and Senate want to increase middle class taxes with the wacko 23 percent sales tax.

I've seen that plan in detail and it is nothing but crap and lies.

But, Georgia already has a backwards tax system that taxes people in poverty! Families in poverty are having trouble feeding and clothing their kids. Yet, Georgia is cutting business taxes, building boating ramps for fishing tournaments, and cutting tax refund checks to Sonny Perdue to the tune of millions of dollars.

But, why tax the poor?

We're not talking about playing Monopoly, a board game with that card that says, Pay Poor Tax! At least in that game, everyone has an equal but random chance of being taxed. But, in Georgia, the poor tax is a certainty.

The number of states taxing extremely poor families of four -
those with incomes below three-quarters of the poverty line
($15,902) - increased from six in 2006 to nine in 2007. Three
states that previously exempted such families began taxing
them: Georgia, Illinois, Ohio. They join Alabama, Hawaii,
Indiana, Michigan, Montana, and West Virginia in taxing
extremely poor families

So, a family of four, making less than $15,902 in annual income, pay state income tax in Georgia since the GOP took over the budgets, the voting booth, and damn near every elected office.

So ask Casey Cagle about his promise to never increase taxes. Cause, according to this information, he increased income taxes on the poor in 2006.

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