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Donald Trump has been incredibly normal from a policy perspective. The only thing he did that you could even begin to consider as beneficial exclusively to the wealthy were his tax cuts, but that's only if you ignore that he cut everyone's taxes.

His most controversial policies, like banning nationals from Middle Eastern warzone countries, or extending the Obama-era detention policies of illegal immigrants in border states, can't be considered a "1%" program by any stretch of the imagination.

It is interesting that Trump is the pro-1% candidate while Harris is literally stealing Trump's pro-middle-class policy ideas like "no tax on tips" or increasing the child tax credit for new parents. She also has the backing of major banks, hedge fund, and the like and her administration has made zero effort to do anything remotely opposed to "the 1%".

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He gave corporations tax cuts. Literally the middle & upper middle class have to pay far more in taxes than the top 1% because of this. It’s a numbers game that is inequitable. Which helps keep the majority in the USA poor.

Business owners can write off the majority as losses & expenses while company workers continually have to pay for the corruption of big bankers. They shouldn’t be forced to pay because Wall Street is corrupted. Literally for the first time in the USA the top 1% are wealthier than the lower 99% combined. Long live the kings of industry. 🤣

Maybe you believe I’m a fan of Harris. I’m not. DC is corrupted in multiple

ways. Lobbyists who write the laws. Sackler family of Purdue Pharma paid $10000 a head for the dead after they helped initiate the opioid epidemic. Supreme Court allowed the family to be personally shielded from prosecution. After proof the company bought off other people in cities in the past. Kentucky was one.

Then there are literal train wrecks that leech toxic chemicals into towns ground water because the companies don’t care about loss of life. Big wealth then tries to come in & buy off the towns so they can’t be prosecuted later.

Malicious people saw the Triangle Shirt Factory fire & thought: Hold my Beer. We can kill more people & get away with it because no one will hold us accountable. Teflon etc.

The entire government is compromised & controlled by big wealth. Wars shouldn’t happen.

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YTMND 1y ago

So your problem is the corporate tax cut? I guess it doesn't matter that the corporate tax is notorious for being passed onto consumers in the form of higher prices. Regardless, the idea that reducing (not eliminating, but reducing) the corporate tax has so dramatic effect on the income distribution as to be describable as "selling it the 99%" is just brazen hyperbole.

Regardless, it is an out-and-out lie that the lower and middle classes pay more in taxes than the upper class. The top 10% of income earners fund something like 90% of the entire federal budget. That was true before and after the Trump tax cuts. In fact, the biggest relative cuts landed on the middle class!

Also, the idea that the majority of Americans are poor is laughable. The median income in the United States is one of the highest in the world, as is the GDP per capita. Americans, even the poorest ones, are some of the wealthiest people on the planet.