i think the average joe doesn't really give a crap how much other people are taxed.
median household income guy saw a pretty significant tax cut for himself in 2017. shouting at him that the tax cut was actually bad for him because extremely wealthy people got a tax cut too is going to be a bit confusing for him. i don't think the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" trope is actually very common.
Yeah, I kinda agree, it's in a different way the issue I have with the dems messaging on "taxing the billionaire's" or "making them pay their fair share" it plays too much into "well I don't like taxes so why would they" or "pay their fair share, they pay $XXXXX more than I do".
The real message should be, giving tax breaks to the billionaires destroys these social program millions of americans count on funding and then list all of them. WIC, SS, even ones that don't actually do that. The convo should be less making them pay their fair share, but that them avoiding taxes or getting a tax cut means your life as a poor person is going to be even poorer. And YOU have to pick up the bill or the bill doesnt get paid and you lose these services.
Explain to me how giving income tax breaks to billionaires affects Social Security.
Read my "it doesn't actually do that" I know it doesn't. But Pubs forever blame poor people leaching off the government for all other people's problems. Blame the billionaires for their plight on everything. THat is the real issue. After all they do eventually want to dismantle that as well.
The way you wrote it does not read the way you are claiming. Regardless, it's interesting that in a thread title "pos 'pubs being complete pieces of crap," you want to follow the same tactics as them.
I don't think I ever said follow their tactics, so that is a wrong assumption, nor would simply acknowledging pubs are good at messaging as relieving them from being POS's. I was saying Dems piss me off in not being able to message things properly. They always make assumptions that everyone knows things like they do. Pubs are good a just "saying it like it is", that is about it. But I always interpret that as saying it in a way that is clearly able to be understood. If there is a tactic, that is simply it, say exactly what you mean in a way that makes sense. It's like when there is a briefing on the stock market going up, it makes an assumption that you understand that is actually good, and good
for youPubs have been good at trying to show that DEI is the problem, or immigrants are the problem, or the left is problem. They are BITB at pointing the finger at the wrong source of the problem. Pubs are POS's cause they fight to remove rights and money away from those who actually work, and who should be treated with dignity.
