I want to believe that people will eventually realize that cutting taxes is bad
It doesn’t have to be. Harris’ tax plan cut taxes on every bracket except the richest, and we still ended up with more income than we started. The top 1% really are earning way more than anyone would ever need.
I may just be blind — apologies if that turns out to be the case — but I can’t find where your source claims that net tax revenue would be higher under Harris’s tax plan.
I looked too; it doesn’t have that stated. Looks more like the plan was more of a rework of current taxes than a tax increase. I feel that my point is still made regardless though.
My point being that taxes and the system in general are so messed up that we could acheive a lot of our other goals by rearranging the current tax mess into something less awful.
We don’t have to start with ‘more taxes’ in order to accomplish a reasonably run welfare system.
It doesn’t have to be. Harris’ tax plan cut taxes on every bracket except the richest, and we still ended up with more income than we started. The top 1% really are earning way more than anyone would ever need.
Woah slow down there partner, I believe you are giving a bit too much credit there
Receiving is neutral and still points out they are not working for that money.
Shit, you right. Wrong word.
Could you cite a source for that claim?
https://itep.org/a-distributional-analysis-of-kamala-harris-tax-plan/
I may just be blind — apologies if that turns out to be the case — but I can’t find where your source claims that net tax revenue would be higher under Harris’s tax plan.
I looked too; it doesn’t have that stated. Looks more like the plan was more of a rework of current taxes than a tax increase. I feel that my point is still made regardless though.
Hm, well, the following point from your comment is currently conjecture, as you’ve provided no source for it:
My point being that taxes and the system in general are so messed up that we could acheive a lot of our other goals by rearranging the current tax mess into something less awful.
We don’t have to start with ‘more taxes’ in order to accomplish a reasonably run welfare system.
I’m inclined to agree, though there may certainly be facets that I haven’t considered.