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AloeVera

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2. The new Gilded Age of Robber Barons.

Reply to ShazamIam (Original post)

Tue May 20, 2025, 08:10 PM

May 20

Trump says this was America's "richest period" because there was no income tax, only tariffs. I wish someone would point out that it was great for the few wealthy but povery-stricken for everyone else.

Awful that he's figured out how to institute the most regressive form of taxation and present it as no taxation for anybody.

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Why tariffs are a bad idea: Trump says they will eliminate income tax, but he doesn't say that the low income people [View all] ShazamIam May 20 OP

But they will report the shit out of the tax cut Johonny May 20 #1

The big cost to middle and low income people are the loss of services currently paid for our graduated income tax system ShazamIam May 20 #3

The new Gilded Age of Robber Barons. AloeVera May 20 #2

Men, women and children working in deadly conditions were creating all that wealth in exchange for early death. nt ShazamIam May 20 #4