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Is it your desire to have most (any?) personal income, in excess of that used for personal consumption, placed under the control of the federal government? I find that the poor rarely hire me (or anyone else) while they still consume at least much as they produce - there are few businesses (or governments) that can sustain themselves serving mainly poor folks. Representation without taxation is just as bad as the reverse when it comes to creating a bigger, more powerful and more expensive government. Having a relationship between your personal cost of government and your desire for more of it is important in a democracy (democratic republic?).
If you are defining poor as people who make less than the $400k which I suggested by the standard exemption/deduction per income earner, then most employers are indeed poor. I would be one of those poor employers.
But I am not suggesting what you are asking me. I did say that it would be my desire for the tax rate to be as low as possible. Taxation isn't about penalizing anyone, or government control of resources. In a country where the government issues it's own currency, taxation only exists to keep inflation in-check.