Trump got over 74 million votes four months ago.
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Right. We have 65 million deplorables and 9 million rich people.
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Dems need to get better at messaging instead of just giving up.
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Youâre discounting the tens of millions of deplorables who donât bother to vote for one reason or another.
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The winning move for the Dems is to increase the standard deduction enough so that people who earn less than ~$35k a year pay no (or very little) federal income taxes. Itâs a tax cut for everybody and the poorest benefit the most, then just figure out how to soak the uberrich to make up for it.
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Man Iâm already giddy thinking about the incessant whining from the usual suspects. The WSJ editorial page is going to be phenomenal. Rich white republicans have never shown an ability to read the room and they arenât gonna learn now.
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All the evidence seems to show that about 30 to 35 percent of the country are frothing fascists that watch Fox News or propaganda to the right of Fox News. Thatâs the Republican party, with no room for growth, and they can only win elections by suppressing voter rights. The structural flaws in the US electoral system are a catastrophe, they make people act like Republican insanity is âmedianâ but its not.
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Think how high his approval would be if did a press conference!
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The richest 10 people in the world made half a trillion during the pandemic. If Dems canât sell voters on confiscatory taxes for the uberwealthy in this climate, theyâre morons.
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I mean of course, but Iâm just being realistic. There seems no indication theyâre getting better or even want to do better.
They donât actually want to tax the wealthy because theyâre also wealthy.
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I used to believe this, but they made huge gains with blacks, latinos, and young people in 2020. The whole demographics changing dream is dead and itâs almost entirely facebooks fault.
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I am not invoking demographic trends, I dont think their popularity will fade. I think that theyâre close to their limit of how much of the population will go full fascist. I agree that social media is a huge problem, but it has almost total penetration in the US population as well.
My suggestion here is that the US population is pretty close to 1/3 fascist, 1/3 non-fascist but at least somewhat politically engaged, and 1/3 totally disengaged from politics. Current Republican policies have no traction in the last 1/3 which is the real opportunity space for voter growth. Progressive policies are hugely popular in the opportunity space.
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Yep, leading up to the election we heard that Trumpâs support is capped, we just need to turn out a bit more people to win easily. That narrative is dead. Trump made gains in unexpected demos.
I think thereâs a difference between saying a party is close to their limits of percentage support and saying that they will never attract another new voter.
These are the kinds of voting blocs that would not seem to mind taxing outrageous wealth, opening up for business thanks to BIDEN JABZ, and getting stimmy manies.
I would expect them to support Biden in 2024 on our current trajectory.
Itâs already started:
That is of course self-serving propaganda bullshit, but itâs also fairly likely to be true. IRS enforcement is disproportionately targeted at lower income people by a pretty significant margin.
At the expense of giving a click to this garbage, I had to go through and read the amazing logic that would lead them to this conclusion.
If Warrenâs bill passes, you should expect the IRS to hire legions of new auditors and tax collectors whoâll be turned loose on American taxpayers over the next ten years. As the tax code becomes more voluminous and complex, more people make honest mistakes in calculating their taxes. This reality leads to tens of millions of penalty assessments. In 2019, the IRS assessed over 40 million civil penalties. Nearly 33 million were assessed against individuals, the vast majority of whom are honest taxpayers caught in tax-code booby traps and potholes they didnât even know existed. Those same people then became the targets of a blizzard of IRS notices and payment demands, and, if that fails, eventually, tax liens and levies. Ultra-millionaires tend not to have this problem; they can afford to just pay their taxes, because theyâre ultra-millionaires. But when middle-income Americans fall into tax debt, they become enforcement victims precisely because they donât have the money to settle up.
Boy, if theyâre this angry about the spiraling impacts of, uh, middle-income tax debt, Iâd bet theyâd be furious to learn about things like payday lending and the civil penalties like fines and fees regularly piled upon communities of color.
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The bad faith is blatant, even for NR.
Why do we need a massive increase in tax enforcement funding when we are about to embark upon on a massively difficult tax enforcement process?
Thatâs a question that gets asked by this fellow.