in article T7uAc.44199$tA6.15747@nwrddc03.gnilink.net, Kevin Wayne Williams
at kww.nihongo@verizon.nut wrote on 6/18/04 1:24 PM:

> Ernest Schaal wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> Although there has been proposals to have the poor pay a "negative tax"
>> (i.e., get a sum of money instead of paying a sum of money), to my knowledge
>> those proposals were never adopted.
>> 
> 
> EIC can result in a refund greater than taxes paid in. That's a negative
> tax rate in my book. The citations that Mr. Fester posted concur, and
> describe that tax burden on the bottom 20% of the population as negative.
> 
> KWW

Does Mike realize that?