BREAKING! The Great Trump Tax Hype Bombshell!

[Kosh]

Actually it does piss me off that they paid a lower percentage than I did.

The difference is that Bernie and Barack know the system is rigged towards the well-to-do people.  They think the wealthy should pay their share and are in favor of increasing taxes on themselves.  In contrast, the orange fucktard wants to give the rich (including himself) a huge tax break.  I totally understand the rich republican. But I don't know how the current distribution of the American tax burden doesn't piss the shit out of every average guy/gal.  It's as if all average republicans care about is whether or not they can buy that new assault rifle, keep others from getting an abortion, and keep gays from getting married.  Fuck everything else.  Republicans are happier bitching about some poor sap who used some food stamp money to self medicate instead of the billionaires who hide their money overseas to keep from paying taxes.

It's absofuckinglutely mind boggling to me.

It's the Horatio Alger myth writ large. Ordinary or below poverty income level republican voters think that through hard work, enterprise and a little luck they too have a chance to strike it rich. They therefore don't want to raise taxes on the rich because they envisage themselves to be part of that set in twenty or thirty years time.

They are obviously disconnected from reality.  I'd like to see the percentage of low to middle income folks who break into the top 1%.  My guess is that it's far far less than 1%

Sure, once in a great while you get a driven individual who has a great idea and was in the right place at the right time, but those folks are few and far between.  Once your in the 1% club the money just stays in the family so you have old money controlling all that wealth for generations.  For that reason I have a ton of respect for people like Bill and Melinda Gates.  They have this massive fortune and are leaving their children a relatively small percent.  The rest goes to charity work.