Originally Posted by
Daelak
That system will never exist in a society that is still battling and willfully ignoring the egregious acts of violence and destruction that it put upon other human beings. Full stop, to so simplistically say that a tax policy will "fix" long term joblessness in the most impoverished areas of the country is only showing how deluded you are with right wing propaganda.
There is no net equivalence or 6% growth under his plan, because economists of all stripes said it would create the largest deficits and destabilize the economy, sending us into an avoidable recession.
I would personally see all federal taxation be burdened by the wealthy rather than the rest of the population because we are a service oriented economy whose growth is dependent on consumer demand/consumption/investment, not by the dietary and lifestyle choices of the wealthy, however any tax increase on the wealthy is a good thing to extract from them in order to stabilize wealth inequality.
Modern conservatism is most definitely grounded in white supremacy and neo-confederate language, you just willfully refuse to see the writings of Goldwater, Buckley et al. They basically plagiarized John Calhoun, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay. Look at Goldwater's presidential tally to see.
The modern republican party does worship the wealthy, and will literally tolerate an incompetent, narcissistic president in order to get their tax cut proposal to pass. Taxation isn't even the reason why developed nations have low GDP growth.
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There is nothing similar to what the democratic party was in the 19th century to what it is today, the same can be said for republicans, but conservatism, no matter what century in the US, began in the slave plantations of the Deep South by Barbary slave lords, not by New Englanders and Midlanders during ratification. Own it, accept it, and try to change.