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> In the end, the poor will benefit greatly, the rich will carry on as usual, and people in the middle will get squeezed to death. While I disagree with nearly
by yunohn 5y ago
> In the end, the poor will benefit greatly, the rich will carry on as usual, and people in the middle will get squeezed to death.
While I disagree with nearly all of your post, I can find reason in the closing statement.
I feel like this logic often evades the people asking for higher taxes to support their causes. It’s always the middle class that ends up paying for it. It creates a lot of resentment which is exactly what fuels the rest of your post.
I wish there was a way this could be avoided, but obviously, it’s by design.
- wonderwonder 5y agoThis is a systematic issue though, not an intent problem. Why do the middle class end up paying for it while the rich which own 40% of the assets don't? Due to lobbying and constantly electing politicians that are the same over and over again. The top 10% in the US own 70% of the assets. Just make the rich pay their taxes and the situation is resolved but we just keep gouging the middle class. Middle class should establish a fund to pay for lobbyists.
- yunohn 5y ago> This is a systematic issue though, not an intent problem. It’s definitely systemic/systematic, but it’s also intent? The tax system is intentionally designed by the ruling/wealth classes to extract the working classes money. Each individual tax may not have this explicit intent, but the sheer number of loopholes and bypasses are omnipresent.
- wonderwonder 5y agoSorry, yes, meant its not the intent of the middle class. Its absolutely the intent of the rich, large corporations and their lobbyists.