I suppose that Sunset and the Right haven't tumbled to the fact - amply substantiated- that if we raised the Minimum Wage to a figure people could live on, and took other steps to alleviate poverty in the U.S. that fewer people would pay no Federal Income Tax?

Naaah, lets just keep giving tax cuts to billionaires & multinational corporations. That'll fix everything.

(P.S. Sunset: for your "used to be is that here in 1963 Los Angeles the combined sales tax rate was 3%. In 2010 the rate was 9.75%....Yet, today Los Angeles is a city in decay" you can thank Ronnie Reagan, EnRon, etc.)