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