That of course is the goal. The billionaire class has been jonesing for a flat tax since I was in high school. And I was in high school in the '80s.
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Brian Tyler Cohen
Between Trump’s tariffs and this, I could not think of a faster way to increase taxes on middle and lower class Americans while slashing taxes for the ultrawealthy.
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Musk and Swami are they American citizens???
100%. do you think AMERICAN
Will Survive ???
Yet again, Team Trump comes up with a 3rd grade solution to a grad school problem.
not even any pretense anymore.
All the billionaires (except the best one), Wall Street, Big Pharma, Military Industrial Complex, Oligarchs, Social Media, legacy media…
All supported Harris
and you STILL lost!
Because the working class VOTED, it’s called DEMOCRACY.
The US is already way beyond the economic inequality present during the French Revolution, how much further do you have to push the system until it collapses completely?
Sure, why should the people benefiting the most from our society pay more than those that don't? Why give back at all?
Clowns.
I’ll happily pay more for less stressed employees. Repubs hate me for this.
Math shows it’s not just inequitable but also another wealth redistribution
Tariffs designed by a man who doesn't know how tariffs work. Tax codes explicitly written for his personal benefit.
Attacks on labor protections and the labor pool itself.
When federal revenue was 20% of GDP we had a surplus; it is 16% now. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S