In essence, the GOP has spent at least 4 decades becoming policy wonks on taxation. So, surprise! When they get into power, they want to do some thing about 'taxes'.
I guess when the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
The problem is that taxes aren't really the problem most of us are concerned about who vote GOP. It's immigration. If the tax policies impede immigration enforcement, they're counter-productive.
The Silver Spoon Faction in the GOP (like Steve Forbes) shouldn't get what they want until the rest of use do.
Thanks for the comment. High tax rates are not a good thing, and they do not increase tax revenue. They are all about punishing the rich. High tax rates just give more power to the government. We should not let envy drive policy. That is for socialists and communists. The left loves to pit different income groups against one another. We should not play their game. We can have low tax rates AND low or no immigration if that is what we want.
What is a 'high tax rate' to someone who has billions of assets that cannot be touched by taxes at all?
Since we allow the vague preferences of the rich to stay rich to drive policy, there's not reason that 'envy' should not.
The day of the wealthy upper class being perceived as setting the morals for the rest of us are long over, at least for us 'socialists' and 'communists'.
Tax policy isn't important right now. It's just a thing that the Silver Spoon Faction in the GOP want because it's something they understand and it makes them happy to have even more money they don't need that they can use to invest in China.
We cannot have 'low tax rates' and 'low immigration' because the people who want 'low tax rates' also want high immigration (to keep wages low).
This is where 'class analysis' actually works.
The same class of people who want 'low taxes for the wealthy' are the same people who want high immigration to suppress wages for the rest of us.
The moneyed class are not offering anything in return for support in getting them lower taxes. They are - like all oligarchs - just expecting the peasants to give them want they want because they want it.
In the end, the rich depend up a tax policy that gets everyone to pay for the infrastructure they benefit the most from. At all points along the 'development' process - including setting tax policy - the wealthy seek to externalize costs while internalizing profits.
The rest of us don't have to go along with this and I certainly don't.
As far as I am concerned, 'tax policy' is an extremely low priority of concern to policy wonks and the rich who are looking for carve-outs for their yachts, 10 'homes' and vacations in Vale.
In essence, the GOP has spent at least 4 decades becoming policy wonks on taxation. So, surprise! When they get into power, they want to do some thing about 'taxes'.
I guess when the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
The problem is that taxes aren't really the problem most of us are concerned about who vote GOP. It's immigration. If the tax policies impede immigration enforcement, they're counter-productive.
The Silver Spoon Faction in the GOP (like Steve Forbes) shouldn't get what they want until the rest of use do.
Thanks for the comment. High tax rates are not a good thing, and they do not increase tax revenue. They are all about punishing the rich. High tax rates just give more power to the government. We should not let envy drive policy. That is for socialists and communists. The left loves to pit different income groups against one another. We should not play their game. We can have low tax rates AND low or no immigration if that is what we want.
What is a 'high tax rate' to someone who has billions of assets that cannot be touched by taxes at all?
Since we allow the vague preferences of the rich to stay rich to drive policy, there's not reason that 'envy' should not.
The day of the wealthy upper class being perceived as setting the morals for the rest of us are long over, at least for us 'socialists' and 'communists'.
Tax policy isn't important right now. It's just a thing that the Silver Spoon Faction in the GOP want because it's something they understand and it makes them happy to have even more money they don't need that they can use to invest in China.
We cannot have 'low tax rates' and 'low immigration' because the people who want 'low tax rates' also want high immigration (to keep wages low).
This is where 'class analysis' actually works.
The same class of people who want 'low taxes for the wealthy' are the same people who want high immigration to suppress wages for the rest of us.
The moneyed class are not offering anything in return for support in getting them lower taxes. They are - like all oligarchs - just expecting the peasants to give them want they want because they want it.
In the end, the rich depend up a tax policy that gets everyone to pay for the infrastructure they benefit the most from. At all points along the 'development' process - including setting tax policy - the wealthy seek to externalize costs while internalizing profits.
The rest of us don't have to go along with this and I certainly don't.
As far as I am concerned, 'tax policy' is an extremely low priority of concern to policy wonks and the rich who are looking for carve-outs for their yachts, 10 'homes' and vacations in Vale.