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I completely am 100% behind that but I’m just saying cause that never seems to happen cause of the fact that not enough people vote and the gerrymandering and the fact that the corporations own our government.
Democratic Senator Jon Tester of Montana joins MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss his opposition to legislation introduced by House Republicans that would abolish the IRS, eliminate income taxes and instead impose a 30 percent sales tax on national goods.

So the Republican's solution to inflation is to rain down pain on the middle and low-income classes, and make it easier for the wealthy to dodge taxes. Just like God intended I see. >

It's truly staggering isn't it? When I first heard that I thought it was from a satire account. The republican party is already struggling because all they have is culture war nonsense and hate, they don't have a single idea about fixing anything, or making life livable for regular Americans. So in light of that....they decide checks notes, to have a monkey shit fight over electing the speaker, talk about gutting social security and raising the minimum age, then, cherry on top, a fucking 30% universal sales tax? 
Holy. Shit. 
Shit I almost forgot, killing a good number of their base with fear mongering about the vaccine.
Edit and trying to gut the boost to the irs budget so their rich friends and donors can dodge taxes more easily. I'm not gonna add anymore edits but you get my point. >

I know, in the grand scheme of things, we're a small issue, but please let's not forget: they ALL ran on anti trans hate, lost the midterm harder than any opposition party in 100 years, and have decided to put forward bills on the state level that are way more hateful towards trans people than ever before, many of which being outright genocidal... >

Yeah that's what I was saying, their entire platform was basically just hate and culture war shit, and the base pretty much abandoned them, but they're just continuing on in the same direction while adding wildly unpopular bills that even their dwindling base will hate. >

Tester doesn't have to kill himself. Ain't no way in hell it's gonna pass. >

The Fair Tax Act.
I know politicians like to hide their bills behind swell-sounding names, but calling a 30% sales tax bill a "Fair Tax" bill is a special kind of crazy.
Like ... Seriously. Seriously: Anyone who believes something like that would good for America has to be clinically insane. >

It’s popular with people who suck at math and believe that wealthy people also live paycheck-to-paycheck, just like them.
Anybody with a functional brain can quickly realize that when you have both a wealthy person and an average income person both buying a $1,000 iPhone (as an example), the average income person is paying a greater proportion of their income towards sales tax than the wealthy person.  Hence why sales taxes are considered regressive taxes. >

"Inflation is killing America at 6%!!1!1!"
"Let's raise sales tax to 30%" >

If America didn't have a turbocharged right-wing propaganda machine and woefully uninformed/unengaged voting base... The Republican party (as it is currently constructed) wouldn't even register on the political radar.
Instead, despite literally attempting a fucking coup, it remains one of the most powerful political forces in the world. With legions of lemmings eager to kneecap themselves if it means sticking it to their perceived "enemies." >

What does r/conservative have to say about this bill? 🤦🏻‍♀️ >

Id say yes to a 30% sales tax as long as its a national tax, all other taxes are banned, clothing and food are taxed at 0.  We'd all be better off. >

That would be a lot more taxes than I’m paying now and I personally couldn’t afford that so I’d say no. >

Exactly. If you live Pay check to paycheck, this would be a tax increase. >

Actually isn’t a national sales tax a good way of getting some tax money. I don’t mean 30% but a small bump for states that already have sales tax for their own purposes and maybe 7% for the states that don’t.  30% is insane. >

Actually taxing millionaires and billionaires would also bring in tax money.