Re:Strikes spread as French unions intensify pension reform ...
by dangus on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @07:10PM
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Sure, the basic data about government spending is real but in this particular article it’s being leveraged for a distorted narrative, and the distortion is the idea that there’s no possible way we can pay for these things without fucking over the common person.
The fancy little sliders are reinforcing the idea that “the money must come from one of these things” when it really should just come from progressive taxation at a reasonable rate instead of letting the wealthy off easy.
The Republican Party cut the taxes of the wealthy in 2017 and increased the deficit by doing so. They can’t be trusted to give advice about government spending because their basic party platform is that government is bad, the wealthy need tax relief, and their actual legislative track record is increasing the deficit. And yet here they are telling us through their study and this complimentary article that the only way to cut the deficit is to fuck the poor and the elderly.
The fancy little sliders are reinforcing the idea that “the money must come from one of these things” when it really should just come from progressive taxation at a reasonable rate instead of letting the wealthy off easy.
The Republican Party cut the taxes of the wealthy in 2017 and increased the deficit by doing so. They can’t be trusted to give advice about government spending because their basic party platform is that government is bad, the wealthy need tax relief, and their actual legislative track record is increasing the deficit. And yet here they are telling us through their study and this complimentary article that the only way to cut the deficit is to fuck the poor and the elderly.
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/19/571754894/charts-see-how-much...