About 125,000 notices will be sent to high-income earners, including 25,000 people with income more than $1 million, the tax agency said
This is who the Republican party’s complaints about the IRS are intended to protect.
About 125,000 notices will be sent to high-income earners, including 25,000 people with income more than $1 million, the tax agency said
This is who the Republican party’s complaints about the IRS are intended to protect.
The Republicans openly favor the 1%, which is a big difference between the parties
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The Democrats very much less so; a big chunk of their coalition is the labor unions who are outside that demographic.
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The Democrats are a coalition, and not every coalition member is on board with downward redistribution, but a big chunk are, and it has a history of showing in the policies they implement.
Well, in the policies they would totally implement if just enough of them didn’t block them.
This one is a great example:
Asking. They don’t ask regular people.
Sending a letter is the first thing they do when you haven’t filed. No matter who.
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That’s just silly. We’ve got one fascist party and one moderate party (with some actual leftists as part of their coalition)
There’s a world of difference between how the two would govern
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Then don’t even try bro. Don’t vote, don’t work on campaigns. Hey don’t even go on forums to talk about how fucked the system is. Because it’s all fucked. Just don’t. That’s your motto here.
It’s kind of ironic how you give an example of black and white, with no grey area, and then immediately demonstrate black and white thinking,
Are there some politicians who solely work as a paid agents of billionaire lobbyist groups? Sure.
Do all politicians work together harmoniously with the sole purpose of capitulating to some unnamed ‘they’? Unlikely.
Are both sides the same? Demonstrably not.
The truth is that the world is complex and there are a lot of moving parts. There is no unified force ‘behind the curtain’. Any conspiracy as large as you suggest requires too many people to be ‘in on it’ and working together.