[varispeed]

The ideas are always around taxing the middle class, the hard working engineers, lawyers, doctors and sold to the masses as taxing "the rich", but in reality the rich never pay as much tax as middle class (as a proportion of income). Tax is often used as an instrument to discourage certain behaviour and this proposal seems to be also hitting engineers, but also people on lower income who for example assemble parts at home. It seems like the goal of DB is to discourage home working disguised as a help to those who cannot work from home. It's kind of "we know better than you what is good and you must obey or give us your hard earned money." Why people are not ashamed to put such proposals forward?

[throwaway0a5e]

The problem is that there's a subset of the population that thinks taxation is inherently good and blindly goes along with the people who propose taxes for their own benefit and the people who propose taxes as a lossy way to legislate away behaviors they don't like but could never get the support for actually legislating away. The result is a baseline support for even the dumbest taxes that is too damn high. This makes bad policy seem like it has actual support when it's just the mechanism of the policy (taxes) that has support.

[60secz]

Leave it to a bank to propose laying the burden solely on the shoulders of the middle class instead of actually taxing the .01%