Reply #4: No! They're doing that? the BASTIDS! [View All]

[bunkerbuster1]

sorry, but where ya been? They've been pulling this shit for ages now. "Conservatives" (yarite) HATE the progressive income tax, and HATE the idea that rich folks might have to pay at a higher rate than the proles.

They're all about making proles' income and consumption the sole source of revenue for their empire building, and of course plenty of dumbass Republican voters oblige them by sayin' "Yep, a simpler form of taxation, no matter how much it screws me, would be a mighty good thing!"

I was among a crowd (relatively captive audience, it was a company meeting) last year where one of these flat-earthers was stumping for a Senate seat, and this topic came up. A crowd member asked what the tax rate would actually be, and when the candidate gave the actual percentage, you could see a bunch of people doing little calculations in their heads... and they weren't all that pleased.

That's really all we have to do... remind folks that under the best, most rosy of scenarios, we're who have something under a quarter-mil in taxable income are gonna get scree-rewed. And that's assuming these theives, the ones who brought you the "Iraq occupation will pay for itself" and "The drug benefit will only cost 200 billion... no, 300 billion, um, more than that, but not much more, promise!", have got their calculations right.

Which they haven't, because they always lie.