There it is. That’s a HUGE part of the reason Trump & the oligarchs love the Gilded Age — the era before the income tax. They want to shift the tax burden back to consumers & working people while the robber barons celebrate their biggest tax cuts in US history. That’s also why Elon decimated govt.
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Aaron Rupar
Trump: "From 1789 to 1913, we were a tariff-backed nation and the US was proportionately the wealthiest it has ever been ... then in 1913, for reason unknown to mankind, they established the income tax."
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The Robber Barons are BACK!
Most of the Red Hats don’t get *this* is what the slogan means.
Others, much like the poor southern whites who were the most ardent supporters of slavery, just want to know someone is below them on the social pecking order.
"Proportionately" is doing some strange voodoo here.
With triple the cuts going to the rich,
A $4.5 trillion tax cut is crazy, bitch!
And steal our benefits to pay for it?
Trickle-down didn’t. Fuck that shit.
Well, I suppose one could assume that charging a 20% tariff would reduce our imports to $80B, but that's all guesswork.
This is a more likely "reason."
Follow the money. Who profits and how.
https://bsky.app/profile/ebharrington.bsky.social/post/3llultzmvek2q
Bringing back manufacturing and using tariffs as negotiating leverage are rationalizations.
Sounds like SNL with Nate Bargatze.
Do NONE of them READ A BOOK??