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Don't call them "tax cuts". (Original Post)
no_hypocrisy
Jan 6
OP
Call it wealth CONCENTRATION. Not wealth redistribution (we need that). There is no distribution, on net. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 6
#10
SheltieLover
(61,127 posts)1. Call it billionaire welfare
Walleye
(37,016 posts)2. The rich get more and the poor just lose, so the Bible says, and it still is news
CousinIT
(10,684 posts)3. Damn right
Clouds Passing
(3,302 posts)11. Absolutely criminal
ms liberty
(9,907 posts)4. Damn straight.
Tickle
(3,279 posts)5. He said he wasn't going to tax
SS, I'm waiting 😁
JI7
(91,117 posts)6. The term is already used but it's been used to mislead
by claiming it's redistributing wealth from those that create and pay into it to those that don't want to work and illegals and whatever else the right wing makes up.
Bluethroughu
(6,293 posts)7. Vaccuuming from the poors to fill the pockets of the rich, AGAIN.
Farmer-Rick
(11,597 posts)8. Tax giveaways to the filthy-rich
What any capitalist country on the verge of collapse does.
Johonny
(22,527 posts)9. Trump raised my taxes last time
I didn't get a fucking cut and I'm sick of hearing about his tax raise called a cut. The poor got dimes, the rich got billions, many in the middle class saw a fucking tax increase.
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,902 posts)10. Call it wealth CONCENTRATION. Not wealth redistribution (we need that). There is no distribution, on net. . . . nt
appalachiablue
(43,291 posts)12. That and state exactly who the cuts are for, the very wealthy.
eppur_se_muova
(37,939 posts)13. "Tax Shifts" is shorter and simpler.
Taxes shifted from those most able to pay, to those least able.
Meowmee
(6,485 posts)14. I call all of it looting
GoodRaisin
(9,718 posts)15. Legislative theft.
Blue Full Moon
(1,482 posts)16. Serfdom
Feudal society, and the lord of the manor and the serfs, were taxed to give money to the elites (nobles).