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Originally Posted by THAY3R
Neither side is for "raising taxes on the wealthiest among us" and "cutting military spending". Seriously. It's all just a pandering game that keeps the elites' in power. A higher progressive income tax harms earners and producers the most, not the rich, and it actually further increases the elites power. You may think the causes behind the Left's actions are more noble, but they are doing nothing about economic disparity other than bringing middle and lower upper class down and increasing federal power. Their position on military spending is also sadly the same as Republicans.
The current political system is just a racket that protects the elite and connected.
1)What does the false dichotomy of American political parties have to do with what I think is right for America right now? In addition, how does this address individuals who do, indeed, fight for those things? Politicians and elected officials are
individuals. "The government" is not a monolithic boogeyman.
2)There are many other taxes besides income tax. Capital gains taxes and estate taxes, for example. Hell, closing some of the loopholes that led to the 2008 financial crisis and making sure we don't have to shell out trillions to bail out those *******s again would be a great help.
It just seems to me like you took a general statement of philosophy and decided to apply it to specific things that really weren't what I said at all.