I have a doctorate in public administration
which includes fiscal and tax policy. I know quite a bit about them thank you very much as well as the underlying economics behind them.
How about showing why my examples were not correct, why its not true that conservatives focus nearly exclusively on taxes that are progressive and never talk about the others deliberately presenting a distorted picture of the overall tax situation in the process, or why we should not focus tax cuts in things like sales taxes, excise taxes, payroll taxes, raising the standard deduction and the like rather than on estate taxes, dividend taxes, and capital gains taxes?
Why in other words is it important to focus so much on taxes of elites and why its not important to focus on the rest instead. For that matter how addressing any of my substantive points as compared to just dismissing them.
Debates between conservatives and liberals are in the end a wast of time on such issues. Conservatives will always focus on initiatives to benefit elites and big business, liberals on the rest of the bunch. The US public will make up its mind, as the link I posted denotes they are getting a bit tired on the on the near exclusive conservative emphasis on taxes that upper income groups pay and their ignoring of all the rest.
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