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Instinctively most people might tend to think that the people who are constantly trying to cut taxes would be the ones who are stuck paying the majority of them, but is that actually true? Is it even remotely true?
The majority of Millionaires and Billionaires when polled consistently say that they should be paying higher taxes. That indicates that the majority of millionaires and billionaires likely lean more Liberal. Certainly, we know that some of the wealthiest people in the country are very liberal. Bezos, Gates, Buffet, Musk all have indicated that they have voted for and supported Democratic candidates in the past.
Roughly 70% of the GDP generated in the United States in the last 5 years was generated in counties that voted for Joe Biden. This is despite the fact that only about 16% of all U.S. Counties voted for Biden. That seems to indicate that these liberal cities are overwhelmingly populated by liberals and they are the ones making all that money. If you're a college-educated liberal living in New York, Chicago, D.C., Seattle, San Fran, L.A., the Twin Cities you're almost certainly making north of $65k per year. If your spouse is making roughly the same or better you're easily in the top 20% of household income.
I can tell you that I alone will pay roughly 6 times more in income tax over the course of my lifetime than both my small-town Republican parents combined ever did. Yet for some reason, they're the ones trying to prevent us, liberals, from paying higher taxes.
Why is it so hard to convince Republicans to just let us Liberals pay taxes so we're not in so much debt as a country?
One theory I have is that even though Trump's supporters don't make anywhere near as much money as most liberals their jobs suck a lot worse. My wife and I for example are college-educated liberals who work office jobs. Our jobs require more analytical skills and problem-solving skills and as a result, pay significant money because we generate significantly more and we're harder to find, but we also get additional benefits like better vacation, better hours, ability to work from home...
The ease with which we make significant money makes us less angry when that income gets taxed. Whereas the more conservative people I know tend to be stuck doing more back-breaking manual labor. They have shitty hours, shitty working conditions, with little vacation. The result is that even though they pay very little in tax the small amount of money taken out hurts them more not only because they make less but because they know how shitty the work they had to do was to get it.
The majority of Millionaires and Billionaires when polled consistently say that they should be paying higher taxes. That indicates that the majority of millionaires and billionaires likely lean more Liberal. Certainly, we know that some of the wealthiest people in the country are very liberal. Bezos, Gates, Buffet, Musk all have indicated that they have voted for and supported Democratic candidates in the past.
Roughly 70% of the GDP generated in the United States in the last 5 years was generated in counties that voted for Joe Biden. This is despite the fact that only about 16% of all U.S. Counties voted for Biden. That seems to indicate that these liberal cities are overwhelmingly populated by liberals and they are the ones making all that money. If you're a college-educated liberal living in New York, Chicago, D.C., Seattle, San Fran, L.A., the Twin Cities you're almost certainly making north of $65k per year. If your spouse is making roughly the same or better you're easily in the top 20% of household income.
I can tell you that I alone will pay roughly 6 times more in income tax over the course of my lifetime than both my small-town Republican parents combined ever did. Yet for some reason, they're the ones trying to prevent us, liberals, from paying higher taxes.
Why is it so hard to convince Republicans to just let us Liberals pay taxes so we're not in so much debt as a country?
One theory I have is that even though Trump's supporters don't make anywhere near as much money as most liberals their jobs suck a lot worse. My wife and I for example are college-educated liberals who work office jobs. Our jobs require more analytical skills and problem-solving skills and as a result, pay significant money because we generate significantly more and we're harder to find, but we also get additional benefits like better vacation, better hours, ability to work from home...
The ease with which we make significant money makes us less angry when that income gets taxed. Whereas the more conservative people I know tend to be stuck doing more back-breaking manual labor. They have shitty hours, shitty working conditions, with little vacation. The result is that even though they pay very little in tax the small amount of money taken out hurts them more not only because they make less but because they know how shitty the work they had to do was to get it.