There aren't enough people w/ "hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars" out there to fund the massive climate & social services programs Dems say they want, and claim they plan to pay for. Dems sometimes point to Sweden or Denmark as examples of generous, successful...
https://twitter.com/johnrobertgage/status/1437932463049822212
...welfare states. But in those countries, taxes are higher & broader-based. Here, middle-class pays much lower taxes & even received a tax cut in GOP’s 2017 tax overhaul. In the popular imagination, though, middle- and even upper-middle-class Americans are overly tax-burdened.
Dems pretend everything can be funded just by soaking the 0.1%. Argument I wish they'd offer instead: These investments are worth making. The very rich should pay their fair share of the bill. But we should all be financially invested in their success. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
This argument for broadening the tax base to fund worthwhile investments is not original to me btw - among the prime examples, Donald Duck (and FDR and Irving Berlin and others) voiced it in 1943.
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