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To pick one little item, it’s pretty basic knowledge that the left doesn’t just broadly want taxes, we want progressive taxation. Tariffs are regressive.
by fisherjeff 2y ago
To pick one little item, it’s pretty basic knowledge that the left doesn’t just broadly want taxes, we want progressive taxation. Tariffs are regressive.
- eddythompson80 2y ago> we want progressive taxation Sort of agreed. All policies I always hear/see cited on the topic alwaus contain a regressive element. They are at best regressive+ or progressive- type policies. > Tariffs are regressive. That’s not true. Tariffs are only truly regressive if your country doesn’t produce anything at all like Somalia or Yemen. I.e your people will die without imports. No American would die from tariffs. If the US were to go Japan 1900s and block all imports, precisely 0 Americans would die. Your “standard of living” would obviously decline. As a leftist, your entire standard of living is based on exploiting the difference in living conditions between you and random people in a random village in China. Sales taxes are considered progressive because they usually don’t apply to “necessities” like food and shelter. In other countries they are called “luxury” tax. “You’re not taxed on onions and tomatoes. But those other people are taxed on lip sticks and shampoo”. Looking at the type of products imported from China these days, enacting taxes on them is all progressive If not economically progressive, it certainly is environmentally. It’s been amazing talking to a lot of “new” 20-30 year old “democrats” or “leftists” who have no idea what being a leftist means. They honestly believe that being a leftist is basically being anti Bush and anti Trump. Once you’re that, welcome to the left.