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I have no problem with the rich being taxed at a significantly higher rate than all of us, but how will this help everyone else? The government isn't going to lower taxes for everyone else. The government isn't going to spend the money more wisely. The government isn't going to give the rest of us money. The government isn't going to improve the existing programs that are in place, or create new programs to help people. What they will do, is find even more ways to line their own pockets, and the pockets of their friends and donors. Just a thought, but maybe we should address that first? Fix the government, and we can fix everything else.
And before someone starts in about how it's a particular party that's a problem, remember that almost every federal level politician is corrupt, and scamming the people. Just take a look at how many significantly increase their wealth while in office. It's staggering, and it's both parties. We need an overhaul of the system. That's where the fix needs to be.
I have a great idea! Let's not tax the rich until we improve our democracy. And let's not improve the democracy until we can get the rich taxed.
Even better, let's do nothing unless we can get all of the things working at once at the same time! Incremental changes are for fools!
/sarcasm
Taxing the rich does nothing until you can fix the government. Fix the government first, and you can fix the rest. The government is the rich, they aren't going to do anything that would impact themselves. Some of them talk a good game, but if push comes to shove, they aren't going to raise taxes on themselves.
The government aren't the rich. The rich buy and use government like pawns.
So all the millionaires in Congress aren't rich? Damn.
Tax them. The US Treasury and the Fed isn't the piggy bank of politicians the way you seem to think it is.
"Fix the government"? The government already knows how to spend money. They spend hundreds of billions of dollars every year on things that benefit everyday Americans. Okay, so there's corruption. There's corruption in literally every government on Earth. The answer is to start taxing the rich more.
Taxing the rich does nothing until you can fix the government.
If only we had some way to find the funds we need to overhaul the government.. oh well. Guess we'll just die or something.
So we can tax the rich for the money right? And where does that money go? Oh ya, to the government, who does whatever they want with it, making themselves, their friends, and donors, richer. That'll definitely help us /s
You're just kind of making yourself look silly here. You know there's an annual budget thing that happens every year right? POTUS doesn't just get to sit on trillions of dollars la la la.
Your cynicism is palpable, but misguided. The answer is to tax the rich more AND demand better funded services for the working class. The fight doesn't stop at a higher tax bracket getting created.