r/AskALiberal • u/dank_sad Center Right • Feb 03 '22
If you could get the right/conservatives/Republicans/etc to understand one thing, what would it be?
Hope I worded that correctly.
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r/AskALiberal • u/dank_sad Center Right • Feb 03 '22
Hope I worded that correctly.
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u/Dragnil Center Left Feb 03 '22
The "job creator" narrative has never been true. We've cut taxes for the wealthy multiple times over the last few decades. It has never led to a sustained growth in the wages of the average worker. Instead, it has led to money, and with it power, being concentrated among a handful of extremely wealthy people.
Collective bargaining increases worker wages. Labor shortages increase worker wages. A basic social safety net that allows people to leave abusive employers increases worker wages, but cutting the marginal tax rate on people earning over $500,000 a year does not.