Thread: Why poor people oppose tax increases for rich people

Originally Posted by Kranes56

So, in other words, this thread is fiction?

Like Uncle Tom's Cabin.

We know that the poorer income deciles will typically support higher taxes on the rich. The issue is whether that should be deemed to be envy or the result of class conflict (something that can't be rejected for the US as, compared to other Western nations, it is rather socially immobile). I'd suggest that it doesn't matter, as an objective analysis based on economic rationality would lead to support for higher tax