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by ceejayoz 48 days ago
I'm entirely onboard with reducing tax on low/mid income folks currently "exchanging a large fraction of their life for the small wage" in favor of increased taxes on the billionaire class, yes.
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We already have the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).
We already have all sorts of things that I like.

We seem to be making most of the changes in favor of the already very well-off, instead of, say, expanding the EITC.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1960-_Tax_rates_of_r...

That covers maybe the bottom 30% of households, and realistically only if they have kids.