They better start with the 47% that pay NOTHING and actually GET MONEY from us!!! I would LOVE them to have some skin in the game! NOTHING will change untill ALL PEOPLE PAY SOMETHING!
This is where the GOP made a big mistake.
We needed to allow higher taxes on the millionaires in exchange for requiring that all levels of taxpayers at least pay something to demonstrate to the lower income earner the cost of government.
I really don’t understand why we had to die on that hill. The average guy doesn’t understand S corps and all that garbage. He just knows that the guy who makes $250k a year shouldn’t pay a lower marginal rate than him.
And we didn’t have to give on the $250k line. We could have simply said everyone over one million in earnings pays a higher marginal rate with less deductions. That would have hit all sorts of celebrities and athletes who loved Obama.
We needed a meaningful tax reform platform. Trying to explain why no tax increase for millionaires was too hard to explain. The optics were terrible.