The tax applies only to individuals with at least $100 million in wealth and mostly affects hedge fund managers.
t_d thread: https://archive.is/5pFXr
here’s fox news trying to convince people that the tax will mean that if your home goes up in value, the government will take your house: https://archive.is/Ay89M
“This would be the most crazy tax structure we have ever seen. It makes Venezuela look normal. It makes Russia look normal,” Gingrich stressed. “That speech last week in Raleigh, where [Harris] outlined her economic plan, that was crazy. That was so far to the left of Bernie Sanders that Gorbachev in Russia would have thought it was a radical speech.”
I saw someone posting something similar about this and a person replied “you don’t make enough money to be concerned about this” and they were like “you don’t know what I’m cooking! I’m certain I’ll be in this tax bracket by the next sitting president!” Lol
That’s been a conservative talking point for years. That if it weren’t for [insert generic bad person here] you’d have a million dollars and a boat and 6 houses.
I’m amazed how many people still fall into it.
they have to believe it, or that means capitalism doesn’t work, and that is a train of thought they have refused to follow