• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Because

    1. taxing the rich is a partisan stance

    2. people are unaware that the government would spend less on singlepayer than it spends currently dealing with middlemen

    3. a non-negligible number of people don’t believe in micro-organisms, nutrition, or cancer as it is understood by doctors

    TLDR: decentralized education with zero funding makes a whole country of dumb assholes.

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      6 hours ago

      Congressional democrats have no interest in actual taxing the ultra wealthy either. It’s bipartisan to not “bite the hand that feeds.”

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        6 hours ago

        Well the last tax bill was written and passed by the GOP in 2017, it got 0 DNC votes in the house the first time and it passed but with 3 congressional violations which would otherwise protect budget bills from filibuster at the time and so it was filibustered, then it passed the house again with changes and then the Senate 51 to 48 with 0 DNC votes and this time was immune to filibuster.

        Now they get to write the new bill again this time because it is about to expire.

        We DO have an idea of the DNC tax plan from the Kamala Harris Campaign promising to tax unrealized gains over 1M and to remove the upper limit that rich people pay to Socia Security Taxes, while also keeping or lowering taxes on anybody who made less than 400k.

        We also know that the previous Biden Administration supported the IRS and gave them every resource and incentive to Audit the Rich, which they absolutely did.

        So I guess if you ignore literally everything that happens then you can make that claim. Take your pick: ignorant or liar, which do you claim to be?

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          6 hours ago

          It’s all posturing. When they actually have the power to fully pass tax bills they don’t. It’s only when they know it won’t become law that they pander to their voters. It’s all a show.

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            1 hour ago

            They have not had that power. We refuse to give them that power.

            With that power we have every reason to believe they would tax the rich. Any incentive to stand against this policy would be on the campaign trail: and they don’t use the card even then.