There’s a lot of talk about ‘broadening the tax base.’ That basically means making poor people pay more Federal income taxes.

Here’s a suggestion: Instead of broadening the tax base, how about we broaden the prosperity base. Let’s move more poor people up into the income tax paying brackets, rather than moving the income tax paying brackets down to encompass more poor people.

Same result for the tax base, less human misery. Unless it’s the misery that you’re after?