thanks, conservatives!

and guess what their major party platform will be this year! you got it, tax reform! across the country conservatives are proposing tax cuts even though half their states cant pay for themselves. awesome!

you guys are just doin top notch work. top notch.

Yup and some of it is just absolutely insidious too. Take for example my state's 529 plan, it actively punishes the poor and working class. They charge a 4% fee/tax that decreases as you put more in at one time so a working stiff putting in part of their paycheck every month will get 4% stolen from them while the rich guy that can afford to put in 10K at once pays not a damn thing. To me that's completely and utterly screwed up and punishing those who need help the most.

It's absolutely sick how this "Christian Nation" actively goes and hurts the poor.

For those who are too busy to read the article, it is talking about the overall tax burden, counting all taxes imposed by governments at any level, including income, property, and sales taxes. Sales taxes are, by their nature, regressive. They are only assessed on transactions and the poorest people have to spend a higher percentage of their income just to survive.

Flat tax advocates are willfully ignoring how regressive other taxes are, on purpose. By taking the one tax that is easiest to make progressive and flattening it, you guarantee that the tax burden gets shifted downward.

In Washington, home of the Microsoft Millionaire every-fucking-where, oddly enough has no state income tax.

But oddly enough it has a huge problem with unhoused people.

Since companies and corporations are "people" tax them too? I don't have a large parking lot at my house, that should be taxed. ETC.

For the first time in history the richest 400 families have the least tax burden on any other class.

Time to tax these fuckers into oblivion.

Shhhh.. don't say it too loud or the working class could turn off the TV and start organizing to tax the rich.. 🤫🤫

Tax? That's not how you spell EAT

When I was a kid my parents rented a VHS movie called Kid President or something like that.

It was about a kid who wrote to a sitting president who wasn't doing well in his re-election campaign, and the president started to replace his own policies with what the kid suggested in his letters, these changes were obviously wildly popular with the public.

Anyways, in the movie the kid's tax policy was to reduce your taxes the richer you got, as a reward for doing well, and to motivate the poor people to work harder so they'd have to pay less money in taxes.

Who would have guessed every republican would've also seen this film and taken it to heart?

"We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes."

-- Leona Helmsley

We should shift the tax burden onto land, something everyone needs but rich people own most of.

How about we all stop paying taxes until the fucks start using the income for things other than making foreign peoples dead?

There's enough money in the pot, it's just squandered on things that don't benefit the people. We could accomplish so fucking much with just the amount of cash that the Pentagon misplaces every year.

I'll never understand the obsession with demanding more from the rich while we can't even account for what we already have. Is everything a goddamn distraction campaign?

/rant

Until we stop hate-voting and actually vote for politicians that will get rid of lobbying, nothing will change.