They simply don’t understand.
They can raise the marginal tax rate, but that won’t raise revenue, it will reduce it.
They can raise the marginal tax rate, but that won’t raise revenue, it will reduce it."
They get it. This is about power and control, about increasing privation and dependency on the government. At its worse, it is about crashing the system through endless additional spending and demands. It's called the Cloward Piven strategy.