God I hope they go forward with this. It’ll take one question to shut down the Dem nominee in the debates. “How will you pay for this?”
They'll just answer that with the usual "it's time wealthy Americans pay their fair share," with "wealthy" meaning "anyone with a job." They'll pull out some phony statistics that "prove" that "Americans pay the lowest taxes of any developed country."
When PDJT counters that argument with factual statistics, they'll just say that "Trump statistics mean nothing because he's ordered his department heads to lie and submit false, distorted analyses."
Once the bill comes due, they will ‘dispossess’ the opposition. Same as it ever was.
Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and more recently in a Newsweek article about South Africa about white landowners, this...
‘...attempts to defend their privilege could well lead to loss of everything they own....’ for the common good, of course.
History repeats itself.
Easy answer from these fools—”Make the millionaires pay more!”
I don’t think “how will you pay for this” is the most effective response, as that implies that these are worthy goals if only we had a way to fund them.
I think the better response is - Don’t you know what happens when you remove the incentive for people to earn money by simply giving it away? I’d suggest taking an introductory economics class, or perhaps just reading up on the news out of Venezuela over the last couple of years, before you promote policies that are certain to do the greatest harm to the very people that you supposedly want to help.
The same answer the Marxists always have. Nationalize the energy and transportation sectors of the economy.