(October 11, 2021 at 11:31 am)arewethereyet Wrote: I can't even diagram this out to make sense. What is the point of this mini-rant?
WTF - early today.
Every so often, in face to face interactions, or online posts, I run into people who do not understand that the enemy isn't always the tax, and they do not understand they have been suckered into protecting the profits of giant corporations that can afford to pay more in taxes.
We've had 40 years of Reaganomics, and if it worked the way the GOP would have everyone believe, nobody would be bitching. If right wingers want to claim they are getting economically squeezed, they are not wrong, they are, but it isn't because of taxes being raises on billionaires, but that billionaires have been masters at pitting white poor people against poor black people, and middle class white people against liberals and minorities.
It is no different than the old Warner Brothers cartoon where Daffy is a traveling gag, booby trap salesman, and sells gags to both the beagle and Foghorn, "You better look out for the other guy".
I just ran into a person on Twitter who was bitching about gas taxes. I simply cannot understand how someone cannot see that the company is charging you more for the product than the government is taxing you for.
Yes it is a "rant", but this ignorance on the right has been for decades, and it has had a cumulative effect unfortunately.
