Ramesh Ponnuru challenges supply-side orthodoxly that tax cuts on lower-income individuals are wasteful and destructive. Ponnuru disputes the claim that reducing the tax burden on the lower classes may result in a large number of people who benefit from the welfare state but do not pay for it by pointing out that, given America’s income mobility, most people who do not make enough to pay income taxes now hope to move up the income scale, or hope their children will, to the point where they will pay income taxes. Plus, working people in the lower income brackets do pay federal … Continue reading More tax cutters for the state