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Attempting to frame it as class warfare is a perfect way to lose support from a significant portion of the US population. "I'm Robin hood stealing from rich pe
by hueving 8y ago
Attempting to frame it as class warfare is a perfect way to lose support from a significant portion of the US population.
"I'm Robin hood stealing from rich people" doesn't work for the people on the right who are more likely to complain more about the irs in the first place.
Joe the plumber who runs his own plumbing business and doesn't pay taxes is going to get audited as well and he's (rightfully) going to lose despite his position in the middle class.
This isn't "the bourgeois" stealing, it's anyone who deducts significant amounts of money, which is a broader/simpler message everyone can get behind. Every small business/individual contractor has the means to illegitimately write off tens of thousands of dollars.
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- smileysteve 8y ago> Every small business/individual contractor has the means to illegitimately write off tens of thousands of dollars. But I'll add that every small business/contractor has the right to write off a lot of things, or portions of things that they use for business.
- SpikeDad 8y agoIt worked up to this newest incarnation of right wing politics. The IRS should go after the big cheese because a) they're more often stealing from us and b) the return vs cost of audit is maximized. What sort of "promoting" of IRS tax audits and fraud cases do you think should be done?
- Ar-Curunir 8y agoIt literally is class warfare; what else should it be portrayed as?
- LanceH 8y agoThe quote frames it as class warfare, then points out that 40% of Italy is evading taxes. So...40% of Italy is upper class? Sounds like something we should move to so we can have 40 times more people than the current 1%.
- noobermin 8y agoFrom who, those who do steal? What is tax fraud if it's not stealing? Why are crimes for some people not crimes while crimes for others punished so harshly? How is that not unfair already?
- ionised 8y ago> Attempting to frame it as class warfare is a perfect way to lose support from a significant portion of the US population. Why? That's exactly what it is.
- emodendroket 8y agoIf you've ever listened to Trump or Palin or similar figures speak I'd have to say you would probably come to question this notion.