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How do you say fuck the poor without saying fuck the poor? National Sales Tax.
This is it, folks. The best and the brightest of the GOP are in power in the House and what was the first thing they came up with? A 30% tax on all retail sales. Awesome. That's gonna really help reelection. >

Oh, they're counting on us to forget all about the whole thing by then. 
They expected people to get over the Roe v. Wade decision after the leak and before it was struck down after all. We were suppose to put January 6th out of our minds as well.
Edit: and they'll be right about people forgetting the things that were brought forward and didn't pass, because there'll be a fuckton of that. It's only getting started. >


Oh, they're counting on us to forget all about the whole thing by then.

But wouldn't it have been smarter to just not publicly entertain the idea in the first place? Their actions make me doubt their cunning. >

They’ll blame it on the dems. Not sure how or why. But somehow it’s the left’s fault. Always is, right? >

On r/conservative their article submission on the M&M's thing stated that the 'woke mob' is the reason. The M&M's literally did something 'woke' and the 'woke mob' disapproved and that's why the spokescandies were removed, not because of conservative backlash. The conservative backlash is real and we can point to it (Tucker Carlson) and the 'woke mob' is nowhere to be found. >

Replace “woke” with “Jew” and conservative circles read like 1930s Germany. >

For once I'd like a conservative to just say "Yeah, ya got me". >

A fucking 30% sales tax?!? These people are fucking idiots. >

😂 Man, that’s gonna be really popular with those rust belt and southern states. >

"I didn't think my sales tax would go up! This is Biden's fault!" >

They know it's the GoP. I had a huge row with some wing nut friends of mine who kept arguing "it would be fair." (the latest Fox talking point). Most get paid under the table labor jobs and have no idea what fed taxes is, let alone FICA but think it's a "great idea." Until I had them define "All goods and services." Imagine paying a 30% tax for every food item, Netflix, for your can opener, automobiles, gas, to snow mobile repair. Oh and don't forget State and local tax. This plan would also kill FICA (payroll tax), goodbye Social Security and Medicare. Any republican collecting disability or retirement can kiss it goodbye >

And the rich would use LLCs and nonprofits to avoid paying the taxes. >

And the poor cant afford anything as it is so they wouldn't have to pay. The % collected goes down, programs are cut, recession happens ns cause no one ia able to afford anything or wants to avoid paying for "luxury items" no need to produce more, recession turns into a full fledged depression all within a year. >

Meanwhile hedge funds would short sell the dying companies to make even more money, while buying up any and all competition to consolidate th3 monopoly already in place. Further stripping resources and influence away from the poor. 
What should REALLY be scaring people are the hedge funds and foreign interest buying up land / property,  while the heritage foundation plants across the judiciary are prominently placed to argue for, "original interpretations" of the constitution. 
Good bye suffrage. Hello white wealthy land owners, (and foreign investors who own / helped them get in power) becoming the only ones allowed to vote.
That is their end game. Going back to feudalism.
I wouldn't be suprised if that point they push for generational debt.
Meaning, you inherit all family "debt and obligations." Putting grandchildren not even born, into permanent wage slave serfdom. >

That's definitely a concern, but some 60-70% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and all it takes is three missed meals. >

Step one: Only land owners can vote. Everybody else is "renting."
Step two: Use patriot act and surveillance state apparatus to subjugate Middle and Upper Middle class into a police state.
Step three: criminalize homelessness and joblessness, then squeeze everyone out of property ownership, and drop wages to practically zero while making "cost of living" beyond affordable for that wage.
Step four: make people homeless. 
Remember that slavery clause from the 13th ammendment?
Oops sorry. Tinfoil hat slipped. /s >

I think you missed where I said all it takes is three missed meals. That is a common saying that if a large amount of people miss three meals because they can't afford it, they are likely to revolt. 60-70% of Americans starting a revolution because they are literally starving to death isn't something that can be ignored. >


House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday told reporters he opposes legislation to abolish the IRS and replace federal taxes with a 30% sales tax.

Republican tax policy:  a single mom paying 30% sales tax on a gallon of milk while the wealthy pay nothing on multiple sources of income >

Yup.  Sales tax is regressive this would be a giant fuck you to average Americans. It also allows rich people that earn well above subsistance level to squirrel away wealth because they aren't being taxed until they spend it, which poor people don't have the luxury of doing 
Whoever came up with this idea is an active enemy of the people they say they represent. There is no reason to even propose this other than greed by the wealthy. >

Actually there are sound economic reasons for proposing a sales tax, which is why most of Europe uses this method to pay for government. >

And what are those reasons? >

When you tax something, you make it more expensive, which causes people (or companies) to do less of it than they otherwise would. The argument is that if we have to tax something (and thereby discourage it), we should tax consumption instead of income and investment.
I’m being downvoted because people think this is a Republican idea because this particular example was pushed by a few right wing republicans. 
But the general notion of a national sales tax is very much a democratic idea - which by the way is why McCarthy refuses to even hold a vote. But we see plenty of smaller examples in things like the gasoline tax, or taxes on cigarettes and alcohol and marijuana, all of which originated from democrats. >

So if taxing an item is used to discourage people from buying it (ie taxes on cigarettes and alcohol), wouldn't a general sales tax slow down spending? >

I would think it depends on whether there are many/any non-taxed outlets.  Money on exists to be spent.