You claim to be "center left"
you think this is center at all? lmao.
-defunding police
-taxing the rich a.k.a taxing everyone who works. (lmao)
-free stuff
1) No major Democratic person is for defunding the police, another lie. Some wanted more mental health workers who would be more appropriate for some police calls.
2) The wealthy pay the lowest marginal tax rates in history, and the wealth gap is growing because most of the tax relief goes to the wealthiest and huge tax benefits for corporations, especially the 100% write-off for most capital expenses, which previously had to take a depreciation deduction over many years. And lower corporate rates will have many ways to be avoid taxes, especially for large global companies. Trump made major cuts to the IRS to avoid more complex audits of his friends.
Trump's own tax returns, which he promised to release, were so complex with shell companies, etc., that the IRS admitted they needed outside experts; they didn't have the funds to contract for them. The Trump Organization was convicted of tax fraud, and many publicly released examples showed that he greatly inflated or deflated valuations of the same properties, depending on whether it benefited him. Pure fraud, like with many of the wealthy, and not the funding to adequately audit.
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When I was in the tax department of the old Big 8 Touche Ross, CPAs (before the Deloitte merger), it was great to have $52k in earned income (more like $200k in current dollars) because they paid the "Max Tax" rate of 50% on earned income. Unearned income was taxed up to 70%, and we had a great economy for the decades of these tax brackets.
3) Free stuff. So let folks just die of starvation vs Medicaid, etc Or, or where most middle-income and lower are facing high evictions, foreclosures and losing the battle with still about 3% inflation, poor job opportunties etc. Why is helping those who need help get some uplifting, even if small things like free bus fares, etc.
You obviously are comfortable financially, so you can look down on those struggling just for daily living, which is made more and more made worse by the King Trump policies.
Trump brags about being the Tariff President. He is the truth; he is the fraud President.
Trump recently talked about eventually replacing the income tax with tariffs. The Tax Foundation said that it would take about a 180% tariff and greatly favor the wealthiest, of course.
www.newsweek.com
