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Tammi Labrecque's avatar

"It is absolutely critical that Democrats make this story about more than the finances of one corrupt, broke man. It needs to be a story about a corrupt and broken financial system that rewards the wealthy at the expense of the working and middle class."

YES. Maybe I've been studying The Message Box a little too closely, because when the story broke yesterday and all my FB friends were posting about Don being a cheat, what I posted was:

"There's a lot to unpack here, but I just want to say this first: In 2016, when Donald Trump paid $750 in taxes, I paid $2945. There's a lot of corruption and lying and whatnot in this story, BUT corruption isn't the only story here. LOTS of rich people pay very little in taxes by using perfectly legal loopholes. That HAS to change. This country is massively broken when I paid four times as much money in taxes as Donald fucking Trump during a year when I was a freelancer and single mom barely making ends meet."

Yes, Donald Trump is a cheat, and of course that matters, but he's not the only one not paying taxes, and many of them are doing it through perfectly legal means. Poor and middle-class people paying more in taxes than rich folks isn't a bug in the GOP platform; it's a FEATURE.

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Colyn's avatar

We need to explain to people into what the deductions and lack of tax accountability translates. R’s constantly talk about Dem’s plans costing too much, that we can’t go into debt with “entitlements” that help people survive. The reason we wouldn’t be able to afford such programs is the tax laws and loopholes that people like Trump and his friends abuse to avoid paying taxes.

Every dime they cheat their way out of paying is another dime the rest of us have to pay! Hate seeing your paycheck disappear to the federal government every week? That isn’t happening to millionaires and billionaires! They’re keeping their exorbitant pay and all the profits the workers laboring for them produced! Meanwhile they’re complaining about paying said workers an expired minimum wage of $15 that won’t even afford them quitting one of their 3 jobs. Disgusting.

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