I don’t think Thune is right about this. Trump has some opportunities to pull the carpet out from under some of these leftists. If they can do the math and figure out a way where nobody - income earners, retirees, SS recipients, everyone - has zero taxes if they make less than $200,000… or even $150,000… and this comes at a price of 1% more for those making over $400,000 for example (I don’t know what numbers they are debating or which numbers work) then they steal all the thunder from the left. 1). They show they are protecting the working class people and 2) the rich WILL pay more. The left can’t argue anything with success imo. It won’t be a GWB read my lipsmoment at all. It will be seen as a great compromise that protects the vast majority of people.
My solution is no taxes on citizens, most taxes by tariffs and flat sales tax... and huge taxes on illegal aliens, or on aliens permitted to work in the USA. Let’s flip the script on illegals, make them pay hugely with taxation if they want to sneak into the USA. No citizenship, then pay bigly.
Perhaps it might make folks pay more attention to things in DC.
It could be configured so that those high earners could be given a way to avoid the new tax. IDK how. Donations to a charity, non-profit of some kind, etc.