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“My idea resonates very well with 90% of voters who are net tax payers.”
Not this one! For one thing, your premises are absolutely mistaken. Poor people pay much larger fractions of their income in sales and excise taxes, and the full rate of the social security tax on their earnings. And millionaires pay a lower marginal tax rate today than the middle class. Furthermore, no less a conservative persona than Milton Freedman endorsed a NEGATIVE income tax to help the poor. The current Earned Income Tax Credit is a pale imitation of what he proposed.
“Rav moshe in his teshuva to the governor of NY didn’t mention that, and all my rebbeim have supported it.”
Rav Ahron Soloveichik z’tz’l, who was probably close to if not equal to Rav Moshe’s stature, was an outspoken opponent of the death penalty and said so publicly. All my rabbeim I’ve heard speak on the matter have told me that a Jew should not serve on a jury in a capital case. (Did Rav Moshe address the requirement for an eyewitness or did he pasken against the gemara and Rambam?)
“All you do by redistributing wealth is encourage people to stay home and produce nothing but children”
Are you seriously arguing that all the kollel families receiving public assistance need to stop having children? Chas v’shalom!