The volume of forum members leaping up in a fit of confused outrage and scrambling to the nearest Washington Post or New York Times article in here is frankly astounding and
embarrassing. We are more than a
year deep into this presidency and you are all
keenly aware of just how many utterly fabricated, bias-laden articles they produce on an
hourly basis, and now you're looking to them for perspective?
Have you learned nothing?
You cannot overtax the wealthy, or large corporations.
They will pull up all their stakes in the country and leave for a location that taxes them far less. Worse yet, a company can choose to
stay, but move all of their assets and production off-shore, which hacks potential
billions away from the origin country's economy. Large corporations and the particularly wealthy conduct the latter
extraordinarily often. Refer yourself to the
Panama Papers or the much more recent
Paradise Papers if you want a glimpse into just how often this occurs.
On the surface, yes, the wealthy and the corporate are receiving tax breaks through means of this bill, but it must be understood that in their current state
very many of them are already exploiting loopholes and pursuing offshore accounts, thus they're paying extraordinarily little
anyways. This bill will incentivize these people to return those assets to the United States, rather than to keep them squirreled away in "tax havens".
How in the world would this bill make an inkling of sense in the current climate if its sole purpose was to
exclusively benefit the wealthy? What sense would that make stood beside all of Trump's other policies, which thus-far have done extraordinarily little that was
not in the interest of the general public? The economy is breaking new ground every other week, unemployment rates are dwindling by the hour, consumer confidence is hitting record highs, he's turned the intolerable, mainstream media and the Hollywood elite into blathering, outraged
ferals that can scarcely string together a coherent sentence in their most-lucid of moments, and he's taken
every available opportunity to
shit across the face of the wealthy and the influential and the social elite, oh but
now he's keen to pass a bill exclusively to benefit his "friends" because
fuck the poor, hurr-durr.
Stop skimming the surface, stop citing the Washington Post, stop taking all of this at face value and
think.
