WSJ: Billionaires' Low Taxes Are Becoming A Problem For the Economy

[senseandsensibility]

When you've lost the Wall Street Journal..... The article goes on to say that tax avoidance is becoming not only an economic problem but a political one.

Listen up, Dems. Even the WSJ is recognizing that this can't continue. Tie all Rs to this topic at evry opportunity!

[Chasstev365]

1. It's getting like France in 1789 and is simply unsustainable.

[poli-junkie]

2. Roll back the Reagan/Bush/Tramp

tax cuts!

[leftstreet]

3. No one ever talks about those anymore

+1

[FoxNewsSucks]

12. Those tax cuts + the wars account for pretty much the entire

national debt.

The republicons who scream about debt and deficit, and mock "tax & spend" Democrats are nothing more than "borrow & spend" hypocrites who caused nearly all our debt.

And they want to steal our SS fund, because they damn sure don't want to pay enough taxes to cover their debt.

[MichMan]

27. Reagan even got a Democratic House to vote for them

They could have stopped everything he did

[Bluetus]

4. Absolutely. I don't understand why Dems have such trouble saying this out loud.

Name one popular Billionaire.

Bill Gates used to be, because of his philanthropy, but it is abundantly clear he is deep in the Epstein swamp, so F that guy.

Warren Buffet? But Buffet has been advocating for higher taxes on billionaires all along.

Musk, Theil, Leo, Epstein, Trump, Ellison, Euline, Bezos, Zuckerberg? These people are all despicable. Dems should have no trouble attacking them.

[senseandsensibility]

5. I have heard some of that

but it needs to be a central message, not just a talking point that a few Dems spout occasionally.

[DBoon]

6. because saying this will immediately result in a primary candidate funded with 100s of millions of dollars

The billionaire class wants unquestioned and complete control.

They reject any form of democracy

[senseandsensibility]

7. There will definitely be pushback

but really, what's the alternative? We can't allow this to continue.

[cate94]

8. Get in office first

End Citizens United and then restore those taxes.

[Bluetus]

22. Campaign money is overrated

It matters but we see all sorts of candidates winning when they are out spent 10 to one.

[irisblue]

9. No lie found

[talking-liberally]

10. The epstein-class must contribute more to society.

[FoxNewsSucks]

11. Yes, and very very few will willingly do their part

[FoxNewsSucks]

13. Some people noticed that a long time ago.

[senseandsensibility]

15. Agreed, but when even the WSJ says it

I think that is a sign that the Dems need to get LOUD about this. It is no longer just a "liberal" issue. Independents agree, and even Rs. That's a sign that it's time to push hard and put the Rs on the defense for once.

[lastlib]

14. Shakespeare Amended:

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the billionaires."

Well, if we can't kill 'em, TAX the ever-lovin' FUCK out of 'em.

[senseandsensibility]

17. No violence

I know you're not suggesting that. But the good news is that I really believe that all we need is to make sure that the public believes that we are on the side of the regular people, not the billionaires. And that should be an easy case to make.

[madinmaryland]

21. There is also "Eat the Rich".

[LiberalArkie]

16. But during the Occupy Wallstreet, the top Dems and GOP said such talk was akin to class warfare

[BannonsLiver]

29. Indeed they did, but Occupy was 16 years ago.

Might be different now, at least on the blue team.

[LiberalArkie]

30. 16 years ago, but we essentially have the same Democratic Party leaders. Still the same DLC.

[ProfessorGAC]

18. File Under "Well, Duh"!

Particularly galling is that 2 of those big cuts happened when the economy was roaring and didn't need any stimulus.
So, they were not only economically harmful, but were wholly unnecessary.

[senseandsensibility]

19. If there's one thing I hope Dems have learned in the past few years

it's that what we think is common knowledge is not. For the low info voters, this is probably news to them. We need to lather, rinse, repeat, over and over again. That's what the Rs do.

[ProfessorGAC]

20. Yeah, I Buy That

I think we inadequately pushed back against the Budh & Trump cuts.
The average person sees a buck & a half and the rich person get 2 grand. Somehow we failed to reduce the mass popularity of those "wonderful" tax cuts

[lastlib]

23. What galls me is, the Repuglykans are a "one-trick horse's ass".....

When the economy is bad, they say we need tax cuts for rich people to stimulate the economy*.
When the economy is good, they say we need tax cuts for rich people because the big bad guvmint is spending too much.
So really, their whole shtick is about cutting taxes for rich people just to make the rich people richer, and commensurately make the working class poorer. And when we call for the rich people to pay more taxes, they scream "class warfare" at the top of their dirty lungs. The reality is that THEY are the ones committing class warfare every time they get a cut.

(*what we find out is that rich people don't spend their tax cuts; they invest in corporate stock buybacks to further enrich themselves and their other rich friends, so the economy doesn't get stimulated by spending.)

[Wednesdays]

24. The WSJ news articles have always shown decent journalism

It's the op-ed pages that suck.

[senseandsensibility]

28. Yes, good point

[Wicked Blue]

25. Begin by taxing the Murdochs

[Initech]

26. They're just now figuring this out?