lol, that's been my arguments all along.

We've been slowly inching towards more handouts for the rich and it's done little to help the common man in terms of much aside contribute to the rise in more monopolies and centralized power. In the documentary "Saving Capitalism" Robert Reich points out the biggest problem with that... It strips away power from the 99%. Compound that with poor spending, partially instigated by the wealthy like military overspending and cutting in places where profits can't be made like education and that's roughly how we got to this point. I've always seen a more balanced tax system as a way to keep the wealthy in check from harnessing too much power. Warren Buffett agrees too making mention that higher taxes have never impeded him from advancing his business but incentivising to generate more wealth instead.

"Trickle-down" economics has never worked. It didn't work when Saint Reagan and the GOP tried it in the 80s, and it won't work now. Actually, Reaganomics (between tax reform and deregulation) directly led to the financial crisis in 2007-08. The rich and corporations generally do not use "tax cuts" to re-invest and create jobs. They use them to make themselves richer. One usually has nothing to do with the other. I'm not an economist, but I lived through all of that, and those are my personal observations as an ordinary citizen.

I think everyone knows what will happen but deny deny deny

The rich get richer and the working public have to look for a second or third job to pay basic living costs.

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