Harris Plan Would Bring Tax Increases for Richest 1% and Cuts for the Bottom 99% | Common Dreams
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"The contrast between Harris and Trump on taxation could not be more clear," said the executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
  • elliot_crane@lemmy.world
    25·
    8 months ago

    This isn’t Harris “play[ing] the tax card”, the article isn’t even referencing anything her campaign said.

    FTA:

    The new analysis from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) follows its in-depth examination of Trump’s tax proposals, which the group found would cut taxes for the richest 5% of Americans and raise them for everyone else.

    And directly from ITEP’s “Mission & History” page:

    ITEP is a non-profit, non-partisan tax policy organization. We conduct rigorous analyses of tax and economic proposals and provide data-driven recommendations to shape equitable and sustainable tax systems.

    Source: https://itep.org/about/

    Based on the “equitable and sustainable” piece, ITEP probably slants left, sure, but I’d say that’s far more owing to conservative tax policy having no basis in being equitable or sustainable for the past four decades at least.

    That all being said there’s literally no reason to make this a dig at Harris, because, you know, the article isn’t referencing anything she or her campaign has publicly said…

      • elliot_crane@lemmy.world
        10·
        8 months ago

        Cool. Except the thing is I never said this wasn’t Harris’ plan. I said that the article is about an independent review of her plan, and therefore she’s not “play[ing] the tax card”. I would agree she’s “play[ing] the tax card” if she was making a big deal of this all of a sudden out of nowhere, but that’s not happening here.

    • LeadersAtWork@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 months ago

      Woah now, it’s SO much easier to make a dig at anything when you refuse to challenge your own, and your friend/family’s, personal views.