Vice President Kamala Harris will propose a tax deduction of up to $50,000 for new small businesses on Wednesday, a tenfold increase over existing relief and her latest economic policy aimed at winning over middle-class Americans after jumping into the presidential race over a month ago.

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    2 months ago

    We can both be right. My goal is showing how appealing government spending can be and is generally. The more people thinking this way, the more palatable “you know what, maybe we should have a 1000% tax on private jet and yacht fuel”.

    Raising taxes on multimillionaires/billionaires should be a lot more popular than it currently is.

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      2 months ago

      That’s because half the population actually believes they’ll be as rich as those high tax brackets (which will never happen).

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        2 months ago

        And there’s unregulated messaging forcing that down their throat both from foreign and national interests that benefit from them voting against their interests.