taxpayers, consumers, investors -- only money guarantees rights.

It certainly doesn't involve the 1% or major corporations. They know how to avoid it completely.

When you shop, get gas, go out to eat, whatever.
When my kids, (now gone) were younger, I got back more in tax returns than I paid in.
But I paid payroll taxes and sales taxes every day.

I'd surmise that in addition to their rights as citizens that there are some provisions for how the IRS deals with people within the context of the tax system which could be argued to be additional rights if you want to be super technical about things.

But the citizen gains the use of those rights by virtue of being hassled by the IRS, rather than by virtue of paying taxes.

A person who pays no taxes and owes no taxes might be called before the IRS to explain why they don't pay taxes, and would have the same rights, but wouldn't be a taxpayer.

If we follow your line of thinking then men have less rights than women because of abortion rights.



Just because a right is non applicable does not mean it is nonexistent.

How tax revenue is spent:

a. Corporations that live and provide work in the US or elsewhere are now people and they have the right to influence government and complain about the government even though they don't pay taxes, receive substantial tax breaks and are permitted huge tax loopholes.

b. People may or may not be people depending on which religious point of view you have AND what view you lobby for. If you're a fetus person, you're the recipient of tax revenue but not necessarily a citizen till' you're borned.

c. People may or may not be citizens of the US depending on whether you're found out, run for office, enroll in a school or serve in the military. Either way, you'll pay more tax revenue for something than the the corporation people.

d. People who are not born in the US are not citizens unless the corporation, the State Dept. or Karl Rove says so.

e. Disabled citizens (as recognized by birth in the US) require significant tax revenue to function. However they may be unable to take part in representation via voting, etc. They may not be taxpayers, they may not be active voters and yet they are citizens of the US.

f. Barack Obama is both a tax payer and a citizen of the US (unless you're some backwoods barmaid with a swamp fox mentality). Nevertheless, as President of the US he is constrained in his ability to influence the dim witted policies and laws that Congress enacts (or fails to)

g. Congress is not a corporation. Since we can't be sure any of them were borned, we can't be sure they are citizens. They pay less in taxes than the vast majority of their constituents and do even less to represent them. They need a new name. Cognitive corpses comes to mind.

Hope this helps!