Quote (Black XistenZ @ 25 Aug 2022 15:40)
You might not remember it, but it was very criticial of the Trump tax cut bill back in 2017 when it was passed. I said that cutting the very high American corporate tax rate was the right move, but that cutting it all the way down to 21% was going a bit too far, and more importantly that more of the tax cuts should have gone to the working and middle class than the rich or corporations. I also criticized that the Trump tax cuts would increase the deficit.
I'm not joking when I say that I'm "moderate" on economic issues...
the massive tax code loopholes still exist and get exploited, while the tax breaks were overwhelmingly used on stock buybacks, not job creation / modernisation / preventing corporations from moving abroad. the whole "the corporate tax rate simply is too high (complete bs if you compare ACTUALLY paid corporate taxes with european countries for example) and lowering it will vitalise the economy" talking point has been thoroughly debunked by reality.
there were MASSIVE tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires, people trump REPEATEDLY insisted would not see their taxes reduced under him - yet in reality they profited the most - significantly more than the middle / working class. it was a scam, a massive handout to the rich and corporations. we all know that. did it hurt him politically? not at all, even his poorest followers insisted it was a good thing, completely ignoring all those facts.
my point here is that basically NOTHING, as devastating or politically unwise it would be in a functioning democracy, will break the partisan divide within the american oligarchy - it's the beast that people like mitch mcconnell and all the other corporate owned frauds created. exploiting the land and the people, while riling them up against each other is the whole point of that system. those morons will gladly vote against their own best interest if they feel the "others" are getting fucked over more. corporate propaganda has made the overwhelming majority of americans into uncritical, hyper-partisan puppets.
your idea that policies themselves have this major impact on voting simply doesn't apply to america in the way you'd expect to from a european perspective. it's much more important who effectively spins it, and manipulates voting (through restrictions / gerrymandering / misinformation...) in their desired way - and to be fair, republicans have been MUCH better at that - otherwise they would have been literally irrelevant for decades...