The solution is not to charge admission to the trough (that is pretty much what is done with the rich, who in various ways, get far more from the trough than the poor), it is to get rid of the trough altogether and stop demanding anyone pays for others to eat. The government has no right to anyone's income, and they sold us on the income tax amendment the same way they justify each income tax increase or revamp of the rules: that THIS time, they have found a sure-fire way to nail those ultra-rich SOBs! The income tax racket is like Wile E. Coyote and the rich are the roadrunner - the only difference is, their increasingly Rube Goldbergian schemes backfire on the public, whose tab with ACME for explosives and booby traps and bird seed and disguises keeps getting higher and higher, but the coyote never dies, so he's going to keep running up our bill, while promising us he'll pay it all back once he FINALLY catches that damn roadrunner. And the rich give a smug "meep meep" and zoom off to the Bahamas or the Seychelles with the middle class holding the bag. The solution is not a better trap, it is to give up the quagmire we call the War on Poverty, which we got into using bad intel, and without an exist strategy.