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Don't forget a key component of Trump's tariff policy is to "replace" income tax with the tariff (tax). This effectively replaces income tax with sales tax. And
by tharmas 2y ago
Don't forget a key component of Trump's tariff policy is to "replace" income tax with the tariff (tax). This effectively replaces income tax with sales tax. And you can guess which economic class benefits from this the most.
- rqtwteye 2y agoThat's probably the real goal. I was a little skeptical about Project 2025 but it really looks like they are following it.
- llamaimperative 2y agoWhy were you skeptical of it?
- saghm 2y agoPeople seem to be willing to go out of their way to rationalize around having to take threats beyond a certain magnitude seriously. I think something similar seems to be happening with all of the discussion around Greenland (and Canada, for that matter); the idea of us actually getting into a serious territorial dispute with Denmark or Canada would be such a divergence from what anyone is familiar with that it's easier to just discount it as not being a realistic concern.
- potato3732842 2y agoSure, on one hand there's normalcy bias. But on the other hand screeching about every little thing is just as stupid. At the end of the day you can't use brain dead rules of thumb to alleviate the need to actually think things though. You actually need to consider the political and economic realities the various moves that various parties might make.
- llamaimperative 2y agoAll big things are actually just series of little things. This is unfortunately a fact that’s easily obscured by the “clarity” of retrospection, through which big things look like obviously big things.