A lot of people wake up every day hoping for higher taxes — it’s pretty mainstream.
Liberals writing for mass audiences talk about uncapping Social Security tax as if its an obvious good (or, rather, that Social Security tax being capped is an obvious giveaway to the undeserving “rich”). That it would instantly hike the effective tax (employer + employee) by 12.4% of wages, close to a 30% increase in average tax burden, they don’t care.
And it gets heavier. Google “guaranteed basic income.” People as high profile as Warren won’t talk about it (yet), but it is approaching monolithic as a concept on the left.
The new line in the GOP-e is that the way to undo Obama’s executive amnesty is to pass an amnesty bill in Congress, just what the GOP-e/Chamber of Commerce want anyway. If that happens I can see Warren running very effectively on a $15 an hour minimum wage to “save the middle class”.