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Republicans going back to Reagan used to brag about how they cut taxes for many working stiffs and permanently removed them from the tax rolls. They did this as a means to garner support for tax cuts on capital and the wealthy with the promise that "A rising tide will float all boats." Instead of prosperity trickling down and lifting more people back onto the tax rolls, corporations, over the course of the last thirty years or so, helped remove even more people from the tax rolls by downsizing and exporting the jobs that previously supported the middle class. Now we find that "the few" who carried out this destruction, after they've taken most of the marbles and won the game, are mystified as to why "the many," who have little stake in the corporatist system, don't support it. It should surprise no one that "the rich," by their own hand, have created an intellectual elite who would desire to march us toward socialism:
I totally oppose an income tax for many reasons-some of which you partially touched on.
I also note that the uber rich often support socialism, death confiscation taxes etc to kill off the competition and to serve as an opiate of the masses