General Discussion

Daily survival issues - like Food, Shelter, Utilities, Health and Dependant Care, Employment, Transportation - those are the things the average household under the median income care about.

Taxes at that level of income, whether it's a subsidized or retired households or a family business household, just don't have that much of a disruptive influence.

However, the inability for the government to equalize common resources for a generic household's ability to just survive, if not thrive does impact those "in poverty".

Jeff Bezos lives in a bubble, he has no idea what it's like to live in a poor or working household - it's remote; it's full of one and two dimensional literary characters (a bit more complex than NPCs) - like Tom Sawyer; all you need is pluck and a little luck, and you can overcome and succeed in life.