• UsernameHere@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Harris literally campaigned with a promise to tax the billionaires more.

    Billionaires countered her campaign by doing things like literally buying votes.

    Now people on lemmy are pretending she never promised to tax billionaires more.

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      23 hours ago

      Sorry, I meant she should have been Bernie-style grandstanding about it and hammering it home and making it a core part of her campaign more than it not being in her plans at all. I feel like she started with that kind of message and was doing well and ended with the Cheneys like me and ill put a Republican in my cabinet and lost

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        22 hours ago

        The polls show most voters were motivated by inflation and thought democrats were to blame. Republicans and the billionaire class convinced enough voters that increasing taxes on billionaires would make it worse.

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      15 hours ago

      thats nice, did you figure out how that would translates to americans affording a roof, eggs, and milk?

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        11 hours ago

        Ya it’s called common sense. See our government expenses are paid with taxes so if billionaires pay less taxes the rest of us pay more so we have less money for a roof, eggs and milk.

        If we tax billionaires for their fair share then we pay less taxes and have more money.

        I guess common sense isn’t so common.

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          27 minutes ago

          😂 oh boy. Child i said eggs, milk, and roofs.

          Taxes are literally the last thing thats the problem there. We’re at historic lows. Lowering them for the low/middle class isnt going to get them food/housing.

          You crow about common sense and then completely misfire.

          Dont get me wrong I’m all for taxing billionaires hard. But thats not going to put more money in your pocket for the items above.

          You’ll need to do a lot more than tax billionaires harder to fix those issues.

          And im here for those changes in addition to taking billionaires more.