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I have noticed that they aren't talking about lower taxes at all anymore (except for the wealthy, that never changes).
If we ever have an election again (I doubt it, frankly), the Dems need to constantly slam the Republicans as historic tax increasers.
The latest taking point is "with all the tariff money, they'll do away with income tax".
The first time I heard that, I rolled my eyes so hard that it hurt.
There was a time once where the country did function like that but international trade barely existed compared to now so its not easily comparable.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/senate-republicans-trillions-tax-breaks-spending-cuts
It’s trillions of dollars in tax breaks to give to the wealthy. They hide it behind spending cuts or pittances for the poor. The working class will pay for this for decades if they even survive and if there even is a working class beyond neofuedalism. Hypercapitalism rigged the system so that the science of marketing on social media was used to convince a whole bunch of them that this was good for them. The neolibs and accelerationists are getting exactly what they wanted
Probably will forever be a class doing the work