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Originally Posted by DinoTriz
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- Democrats want to increase taxes way more than just 1-3%
- Increasing regulation is not "right wing"
- I've never heard a Democrat endorse increasing military spending
- A Democrat supporting cutting social programs would be akin to a Conservative supporting gun control
I can agree that both parties eat, sleep, and drink corporate cronyism, but that doesn't automatically mean they now support all Conservative policies.
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One is slightly more rightwing then the other. But if the status quo is rightwing and I say "we need to slightly increase taxes" -- that doesn't suddenly mean we land on the left end of the spectrum.
The only reason we are allowed to increase taxes at all, is because:
1) People like Bezos don't really pay them anyway. Just the upper middle class. Most of the upper class just keep their money in off-shore accounts and waits for a "tax holiday" they force out of the government every 4-5 years.
2) They will just be cut again anyway by the Republicans in a few years.
The tax increases are still leave most taxes well under what people are taxed in other advanced industrial economies, and thus, still relatively rightwing.
By fiddling with the tax policy by these few percentage points, Obama was called a communist in our public discourse. It was very pervasive and
something like 63% of Republicans said Obama was socialist in year 2000.