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Taxing "the rich" always seems to end up taxing the middle/working class instead. I think most of us would prefer the spending just get killed at this point, w
by msgodel 1y ago
Taxing "the rich" always seems to end up taxing the middle/working class instead.
I think most of us would prefer the spending just get killed at this point, whatever that takes.
- jauntywundrkind 1y agoThe horrors about to happen as education, science, weather, disaster, space, aid, and other systems are all roundly sabotaged doesn't look at all promising to me. I think we were getting a ton of value for a very very little amount of money (if you consider total spending) in these areas, that is hugely responsible for driving America's economy in countless ways. Going horror movie slasher against Medicare also seems really obviously crazy bad. If the problem is that "tax the rich" is taxing the middle class & poor, it wasn't actually popularism. It's also not what happened under Biden nor Obama nor what Kamala's plan was!!
- msgodel 1y agoStuff like this makes me really think our sides just can't share a state. We need to separate so you can be a slave for whatever it is you think you're doing and we can ignore you in peace. None of this has been managed well for quite some time, meanwhile the deficit spending is so high we have to raise already very high taxes. Nope, just torch it.
- const_cast 1y ago> I think most of us would prefer the spending just get killed at this point, whatever that takes. The current ultra-right admin promised this, and the end-result has been that things are both shittier AND more expensive. Turns out nobody actually wants to reduce spending, that's always a ruse. Please, please stop falling for this.
- _DeadFred_ 1y agoUp until the what, mid 1960s, the highest tax rate was 90%. Your post just sounds like 'we've tried nothing, and are out of ideas'.
- msgodel 1y agoLaffer curve.