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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRather than talking about "taxing the wealthy"...
Perhaps it would be more palatable to talk about "repealing Trump's trillion dollar tax cut" and George W Bush's tax cuts in the early 2000's?
It's all a matter of semantics but one seems much better than the other.
Some might call it "framing".
manor321
(3,344 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)framing the argument is perhaps half the battle. That said, I don't know how it would play in corporate media as the deck is certainly stacked.
Squinch
(51,075 posts)Control-Z
(15,682 posts)"tax break for billionaires"
lastlib
(23,356 posts)That frames the cuts as being a gift of OUR money to faceless, soulless corporations. Stressing the "raid on the Treasury by corporations" idea should make it a little bit easier for moderate/independent voters to digest as a benefit to the country as a whole, if not to themselves. Does this sound like a viable idea, DU?
roamer65
(36,748 posts)Before Reagan fucked the tax system up.
kentuck
(111,111 posts)One step at a time.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)kentuck
(111,111 posts)...with a surplus.
IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)Yes, the message needs to be framed, repeated and repeated.
No sense trying to explain the nuances of tax cuts v. tax breaks. Just keep asking people how much more money they didn't back this year.
Just keep repeating "REPEAL AND REPLACE." Thanks for your post.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)rate to 50 % and down again in 1986, 28%. We need the 70% tax rate back, ASAP.
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)the Dems are proposing radical "socialism" when in reality it is just going back to progressive taxation levels of the50s/60s/70s. Too many people have forgotten history or never knew it to begin with.
PeeJ52
(1,588 posts)People need to know it's not about getting anybody. It's about getting this country on solid footing so prosperity can be realized by more than a few people. The better the working class does, the better the executive class does.
GaYellowDawg
(4,452 posts)Not wealth redistribution - that has already happened from middle class to rich - but wealth restoration to the middle class. Take back what they have sequestered away from us.
kentuck
(111,111 posts)The Republican plan is to make it unaffordable by running up trillions of dollars of debt.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)People understand the idea of an addiction requiring intervention.
When we help billionaires with their addiction, we do a great favor to society and the earth itself.
The relevant intervention is TAXATION.