Baucus Assumes that Every American Has Job Security

Penalizing citizens for not paying income tax is understandable because they have income.

Penalizing citizens for not paying sales tax is understandable because when they buy non-essentials it can be assumed that they have some source of income, usually witnessed by filings to the IRS by them or by their employers.

Even IRS gives allowance for low incomes and essential family needs.

But Baucus assumes that everybody has money enough to pay his favorite penalties too.

There are many families where children are paying for the upkeep of their elderly parent or parents. The same is true where jobless children move to their parents' homes.

Not everybody in USA is living in disjointed families, though such people don't get publicity in the media.

And each year IRS has been progressively reducing the standard deductions for such people.

It is shameful that the boss of the committee overseeing nation's finance himself has no inkling of the people's financial situation.

So he has no qualms in penalizing citizens for not paying what they can't afford.

May be in Montana, there are cash-growing trees in the backyards. But that is not the situation elsewhere. Not everybody lives in self-sustaining farming communities.

Penalizing citizens to cater to ideological and political hobbies and pet peeves is not people's representation.

Baucus may be basking in the publicity of his rushed-out bill but citizens of USA are in mortal fear of losing their hard money further for that pleasure.

Citizens are not getting political donations from corporates, unlike the people's representatives. They have no reserves or refuge to bank on to pay overburdening taxation.

Democracy is run on taxes - agreed. But when citizens are enslaved and even killed by taxes, democracy ceases to exist.