In fact - taxation is at historically low rates.
Originally Posted by oldfriend2004
Not in California, New York, and other states with failed state and local governments enacting stifling regulations and taxes on businesses, curtailing personal freedoms and expanding already out of control hand out programs.
There is near max exodus from them. Their national representatives and senators want us, you and me, to fund their bail out so they can continue their failed policies.
I don't advocate another civil war. I just hope we wake up and see this for what it is and stop the effort to solve their problem by our taxes. We stop this at the ballot box and by putting in place an independent judiciary that simply follows the Constitution as originally understood and applies statutory law as written, rather than legislating from the bench.
We will be already getting a huge new tax burden for years to come from COVID. I understand the reason and accept it, provided we address the fraud attendant with many of the "loans" and forgiveness of them.
There are simply not enough 1% people to cover this. It will inevitably hit the working middle class and hard, political rhetoric notwithstanding. Tax increases on corporations stymy economic growth, discourage hiring or wage increases, and get passed on to consumers as increased cost of products and services.
I pray that the US House and Senate remain under control of different parties and that SCOTUS remains independent.
The American Civil War from 175 or so years ago was inevitable. Another one need not be. If it comes, it is likely to be triggered by anarchists determined to sow seeds of discontent, advocating communism disguised as socialism, permitted free and unchecked violence by sympathetic or intimidated local governments, and not from citizens overburdened with taxes. The latter, by nature, suffer silently until it is too late.