Why do you believe that being a taxpayer -- by which I am presuming you mean having an income, owning property, etc., so that you are subject to taxation -- is simply a matter of "luck"?
Well isn't it at least partly due to luck? If I was born to a crack Mom, I'd say that the cards had been stacked against me, wouldn't you. Now we do live in a society that allows for the possibility that anyone can overcome their bad luck, but that normally takes an extraordinary effort, something alot of us are not capable of. Which is another matter of luck, eh?
Or what about homeless Viet Nam vets? The fact that so many of these guys are on the street thirty years after the war suggests to me that they encountered problems that normal people can't easily overcome. All because they happened to be born when there was a draft and had a low lottery number. Hell, if our acting president hadn't been born high and mighty, he'd have probably been a ground pounder then and pushing a shopping cart around today.
I'd say luck has a lot to do with it.
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