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rebecca wilova's avatar

Reagan cut that tax rate from 70% to 35% and Trump cut it to 21% and now claims we need it to only be 15%? Their only response to the yawning gap between expenses and revenue on the federal government‘a expense sheet is to say welp, we need to cut services even more!

No. While Biden was blocked from increasing taxes back to where they should be by Sinema and Manchin’s misplaced insistence on retaining the 60 votes filibuster cudgel that prevents a simple majority vote for almost everything in the Senate, we need to abolish the filibuster and fix so many things that need fixing, including tax rates and giving the IRS the funding it actually needs in order to hold corporations and rich people to account and make sure everyone pays their fair share.

We need to restore the government spreadsheet to where they were back in 1980, at a minimum. 45 years of starving society and starving the government is quite enough.

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Chris R's avatar

What's mystifying is how enraged people get at someone on welfare buying a steak while being A-OK with billionaires fleecing them by siphoning money from the Treasury into their pockets. I guess it's a melanin thing.

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rebecca wilova's avatar

And buying one steak on welfare or SNAP isn’t even illegal! I would buy one flat of sushi and one single cupcake a month with my SNAP back in the days when I was eligible for $200 a month and had no other food money. I’m Disabled. That was my one treat for the month. And then the rest was the needfuls. It’s insane how poisioned people got from the Reaganite rhetoric. As designed, I suppose.

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Chris R's avatar

But you see, you were using "our hard earned taxpayer money" for something other than a metaphorical hair shirt. That's how these folks think. Even worse if you have dark skin

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Adam's avatar

"Even worse if you have dark skin!"

You're damn right! And I'm NOT talking bout Shaaft.

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VALERIE MELUSKEY's avatar

? Black Skin thing?

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Marg KJ's avatar

The sad part of changing the government is how many rePUGliCONs (& some dem’s) are in the government and we know what they want…stupid ppl who believe everything the tv says…or facebook…or twitter! Hey wait…putin is loving this reality…and it’s amazing how much big pharma is really pushing their drugs since ppl are not doing vaccines…geez did I mention the DEATH CULT want their constituents to die…have you seen the data…

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