"Don't the Democrats realize that huge tax increases will cripple the pandemic-weakened economy and crush small businesses?"
Oh, they know. The shot-callers know. It's a feature, not a bug. Fewer people working is the Dem vision of utopia and permanent power.
Oh, they know. The shot-callers know. It's a feature, not a bug. Fewer people working is the Dem vision of utopia and permanent power.
The Democrats have a hard inner core of ruthless left-wing ideologues, surrounded by a mushy, flabby public layer of starry-eyed nitwits who are perpetually stunned to discover the rules of basic economics. The hard core knows EXACTLY what left-wing policies do to people.
The hard core, for example, knows minimum-wage hikes kill jobs. It's what they WANT. They are deliberately blowing up the bridges that lead from poverty to gainful employment and middle-class life. They need the hated middle class isolated and cut off from reinforcements.
The mushy outer layer of the Dem Party is filled with people who honestly think minimum-wage increases will make everyone rich and only greedy Scrooge fatcats could possibly object. They really are slack-jawed with amazement when the jobs start dropping dead, every single time.
Likewise, the hard lefty core of the Dem Party knows huge tax hikes will kill struggling small businesses, kill jobs, and push more Americans into helpless welfare dependency. It's what they WANT. It's their objective. The pandemic could mean checkmate for the hated middle class.
The mushy nitwit outer layer of the Dem Party really does think "rich" people have chests of gold and jewels stuffed into treasure vaults and will happily surrender their wealth after a few more stern lectures about Paying Their Fair Share. Free stuff for everybody! Yay!
The hard core has a vision of fewer Americans working - a LOT fewer - and more universal dependence on government. A dwindling number of workers and capital-owners will pay more to finance Food Stamp Nation, helplessly outnumbered by the vast dependency class. Utopia!
The hated middle class combines healthy capitalist ambition with the numbers to be taken seriously as a political force. That has to go. Fat tax hikes will annihilate the small businesses that elevate so many to the middle class through employment and investment.
The result will be fewer jobs and less upward mobility. (Socialists think mobility is evil - the socialist elite and ruling class politicians are born to their high privileges, and everyone else should know their station.) Classes will become more static, as Marx envisioned.
It really screws up socialist central planning that so many of you deplorables move between income classes during your lives, working your way into the middle class and such. It destroys your sense of class identity and social loyalty, which makes you harder to control.
Utopia means fewer people working for artificially higher wages and paying vastly higher taxes, surrounded by a mob of lifelong dependents who keep them from getting any funny ideas about voting for their own interests or setting higher social standards.
A higher percentage of the fewer jobs that remain after Biden Democrats are finished remodeling America will be provided by big corporations, which are MUCH easier for the Left to control than swarms of small businesses scattered across the heartland. Big Money can be captured.
The mushy nitwit layer of the Dem Party mumbles anti-corporate slogans and fulminates against the Evil Rich, but the hard core knows corporate titans are tools of the Party, eager buyers of the political influence and protection against competition sold by the politburo.
The mushy layer of the Dem Party gets a lot of media attention and pop-culture love, but you should ignore them completely - they have no control over the Party agenda. The hard core rulers, the generals in the great apocalyptic War on the Middle Class, are the ones to watch.
"But don't the Democrats know that..." Yes, the hard core understands the laws of basic economics, and is determined to break them through brute force. Pay no attention to the lovable doofuses who keep acting surprised that nothing works the way Party dogma says it should. /end
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