The one thing he really isn’t wrong about is that the Tax Code renders upper echelon earners nearly impervious to the machinations of mere mortals wrt Marginal Rates:
And since this thread has a mind of its own …
I have no personal dissatisfaction that the linked thread above never caught fire, but – politically – I am surprised that it didn’t catch fire on this forum.
This is serious shit that should be a fairly high priority issue for every liberal, and – once the lobotomies are democratized [NPI] – every old-school conservative.
And nearly every red stater so easily gulled by the shit-gibbon, JFTR.
They don’t pay what we’re told they pay, and this is why we can’t have nice things.
Meanwhile, we’re all fairly easily distracted by (relatively) shiny objects.
Including me.