A new UC Berkeley/Los Angeles Times poll finds 50% of likely voters oppose Proposition 40’s one-time billionaire tax, as support has faded amid a heavily funded campaign against it.
Growing up in a very conservative bubble I can say that most who oppose a wealth tax do so on the basis of “when I get wealthy I don’t want them to tax me.” That or a general belief that a wealth tax will result in preventing them from becoming wealthy. This is also why they oppose regulations.
Also they seem to think the wealthy already pay their fair share and it’s wrong to make them pay more just because they are smarter and more successful.
I had to explain to my own mother how they actually don’t pay their share. That she pays more in taxes than apple does.
She just kinda mumbled off after that but still I don’t think she believes me.
Some people want to stay ignorant and poor.
My mother has been on welfare her entire life and still currently is.
Yet she always goes on about al the people taking advantage of it. But of course she’s not. She actually deserves it. But pretty much no one else does.
Not going to get into details but everything she says other people do, to not deserve it, she herself has done.
It’s always the other poors who are the problem. Never the billionaires. Even poor people believe this. It’s illogical.
My accountant wife used to lean libertarian until she got a job with a firm doing forensics for wealthy divorce cases. Once she saw the actual financial info she was appalled to see not only how little they paid in taxes, but also how deeply uncharitable they were (which is another classic argument the right uses against taxing the wealthy; that this empowers them to be more generous).
Growing up in a very conservative bubble I can say that most who oppose a wealth tax do so on the basis of “when I get wealthy I don’t want them to tax me.” That or a general belief that a wealth tax will result in preventing them from becoming wealthy. This is also why they oppose regulations.
Also they seem to think the wealthy already pay their fair share and it’s wrong to make them pay more just because they are smarter and more successful.
I had to explain to my own mother how they actually don’t pay their share. That she pays more in taxes than apple does.
She just kinda mumbled off after that but still I don’t think she believes me.
Some people want to stay ignorant and poor.
My mother has been on welfare her entire life and still currently is.
Yet she always goes on about al the people taking advantage of it. But of course she’s not. She actually deserves it. But pretty much no one else does.
Not going to get into details but everything she says other people do, to not deserve it, she herself has done.
It’s always the other poors who are the problem. Never the billionaires. Even poor people believe this. It’s illogical.
My accountant wife used to lean libertarian until she got a job with a firm doing forensics for wealthy divorce cases. Once she saw the actual financial info she was appalled to see not only how little they paid in taxes, but also how deeply uncharitable they were (which is another classic argument the right uses against taxing the wealthy; that this empowers them to be more generous).
Which is a very ignorant way of voting. They might as well vote based on whether or not they’re going to win the lottery.
Ignorant voting is the most common kind of voting.
This is utter facts
Oh totally