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What a silly, disingenuous response! I would say that you are struggling to stay on topic by attempting to mix the topic of federal income tax cuts with other types of taxes - but I don't think you're struggling at all. You know that poor people don't pay federal taxes, so you lazily implied that I said that they don't pay any taxes, so we get the dishonest dodge from you.

Question: Has Donald Trump raised the sales tax rate?
Answer: No, he has no authority to raise state sales tax rats and neither does Congress.

Question: Has Donald Trump removed the "safety net" of which you speak, or weakened it in any way?
Answer: No.

Liberals' arguments that lowering tax rates for those who pay taxes and create jobs harm those who pay no taxes and those who want no jobs does not hold water.

Bob, weave, duck, lie, and repeat - the truth packs a punch and it landed cleanly.

You can’t set parameters in the middle of the game, friendo.

Poor people DO pay taxes - I said it before. Just because they get a refund back on their federal return, for taxes they SHOULDN'T have paid, means that they are going to take that money and put it back into the system. It's just like the pell grant for college. People get the money, they go to school, then they end up paying back more in taxes when they work. It's different when you're talking about the poor but if you're concerned because somebody who might struggle to make a living gets money back that they put BACK into the system - maybe they use that money to repair their house, buy food, gas, repair their car - all kinds of different needs. What do you think they pay on that? TAXES!

I don't know what the national sales tax rate is. Didn't it go up to 7% not too long ago, like the past year or two? I would bet that Donald Trump had something to do with that. Probably the Republican Party with those tax cuts. Probably raised the sales tax to cover the cuts to the rich. He's been in office two years and (other than the rich getting cuts) the middle class and poor are taking the hit. Can you imagine a country taxing the poor? LOL! I can't either but it certainly seems like that's what the goal is right now. Let the rich get by with big cuts and corporations get greedy with the additional money they have in their pockets to give to their CEOs.

So has Donald Trump weakened that safety net?

Answer: Yes.