Thread by @CGouef

🧵37.5% increase in corporate tax, UCP? This is the hill you want to die on? Let's see.

8% of $1,000 is $80
37.5% of $80 is $30 extra for every $1,000

Meanwhile, corporations have been raking in huge profits.

Yeah, corporations will be fine. (1/)
#ableg #abpoli #FiretheUCP

The UCP wants you to think businesses will end up paying some sort of exorbitant amount, so they use a bigger percentage number because that suits their interests.

But if you break down the math and you look at it logically, it's not all that bad. (2/)

I can think of a way already to help businesses make up for this: How about not allowing electricity companies to use economic withholding to jack up electricity prices? More money in your pocket = more money to spend AT A BUSINESS. (3/)

Or how about insurance rate caps to prevent insurance companies from screwing you when it's time to pay up? More money in your pocket = more money to spend AT A BUSINESS. (4/)

Or how about limiting tuition increases for struggling students so they don't have to choose between paying tuition, rent, and groceries? More money in their pocket = more money to spend ON GROCERIES. (5/)

The UCP wants to make a mountain out of a mole hill when they've already put the conditions in place for you to get fleeced every which way. They've got you cornered in every single market where essentials are at play. (6/)

And yes, $1,000 is a tiny, tiny amount of money in the whole scheme of things, but compared to everything else the UCP has literally screwed you with, I'd happily trade everything I just listed for a corporate tax increase, and so should you. (7/)

This corporate tax increase is so easily defendable because of miserable UCP policy that has come your way over the last four years.

So, if this is the hill you want to die on, UCP, bring it. Because there's a lot of shit you've done to make all of us feel the pain. (8/end)