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Harris Plan Would Bring Tax Increases for Richest 1% and Cuts for the Bottom 99%
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this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2024
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"Hey, I'm in the bottom 99%, I like this promise"
You know who else is in the bottom 99%, your fucking landlord. if you pay 1% less tax you can buy a whole bag of doritos if they pay 1% less tax they can buy your Mum's house.
Government only needs to pay lawyers to go after what the 1% already owe and it would be more than any increase would provide.
You're being a bit obtuse and misleading here, clearly you didn't read the article.
For starters... its not an income level agnostic tax decrease. Its not a flat tax.
Its graduated. Progressive. And it decreases taxes for all but the wealthiest, whose taxes increase.
Sad as it is, our political system offers a binary choice.
Would you perhaps prefer the alternative?
EDIT:
If Harris wins, we can also reasonably expect a continuation of the Biden policy of doing that other thing you want, the IRS actually going after people in the 'landlord' brackets for tax evasion.
Has that been as extensive as you or I would prefer?
No.
But the alternative is Trump, who, along with Elon, might just abolish the IRS, or massively defund those efforts.
That comparison graph needs to be shown to all of those swing state voters. It makes it so obvious the poor right are voting against their interests.
It needs to be simplified. You'd be rather shocked at how many people can't read the vast majority of standard graphs.
Fuck, you're right.
I consistently forget that the average American has a 6th grade reading comprehension level.