Reply #1: Oh, that's a favorite right-wing talking point

[Lydia Leftcoast]

designed to convince middle-class people that poor people are unproductive leeches.

They forget that even people who make too little (MAKE TOO LITTLE, GET IT?) to pay income tax do pay sales tax, and if they live in an area with little or no public transit, they pay gas taxes, and if they're seniors who bought houses in the good old days, they pay property taxes.