By Ande Jacobson

There’s a serious misconception driven by decades of GOP propaganda regarding taxes. While there is a group of pro-business/anti-regulation Republicans who see tax cuts as the cure all solution to what ails us, the vast majority of Americans don’t see tax cuts and elimination of all regulations (or protections) as a positive thing. People understand that the government services they need have costs that we all must share. What upsets the vast majority of people is that the morbidly wealthy and corporations keep finding ways to avoid paying their fair share. Additionally, the Reagan, George W. Bush, and Trump administrations have seriously hurt the vast majority of Americans with their blatant market manipulation and tax cuts while at the same time creating the most extreme wealth gap in American history. It’s not that the country lacks wealth. It’s that under modern Republican administrations wealth has been systematically been moved from the lower 90% of the population and concentrated at the top 1% at the expense of the services that we all need since around 1981. The result has been the destruction of the middle class and the creation of a small group of billionaires who have benefited. Continue reading →