Negative Social Mobility

You know what a regressive tax is?

It's when, by ratio, the poor suffer more than the rich.

It's when you have to choose between having the gas to go to work, or getting to pay your health insurance -- while the cost of it all is a rounding error for your boss.

It's when they tax your end-of-the-day beer to pay for a bomber -- and you can't help but notice that it's mostly the poor that's drinking the booze, while the rich's getting the contracts to build it.

It's when you get the slightest bit ahead, and the tax man demands his dues.

It's when you go extralegal in a desperate attempt to survive...

...and the law demands your head.

(slight edits to cut down agendas further, +1 crisium grid, +1 prisec)