Is The GOP's Tax Revolt Collapsing?

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The anti-tax movement has dominated American politics for 50 years — but it may finally be fraying.

April 24, 2025

“I am a gay woman who is moderately pro-choice — I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal,” the right-wing impresario Bari Weiss told a Federalist Society gathering in 2023. “And that’s OK. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

The assembled conservatives guffawed at hearing the quiet part out loud; in this case, the admission that tax cuts for the rich have been the glue holding the American Right together.

And yet, less than two years after Weiss’s speech, the epoxy seems less sticky.

In recent weeks, polls have shown Republican voters becoming far more skeptical of cutting taxes for the rich. Reflecting that shift, GOP lawmakers are now trial-ballooning proposals to increase some levies on the wealthy. Some MAGA voices are attempting to articulate a Republican-leaning, tax-cut version of Democrats’ traditional redistributionist rhetoric, arguing that higher taxes on millionaires should finance bigger tax cuts for the working class.

All of this has the Washington swamp’s old-guard Republicans in a panic — one longtime anti-tax leader insisted that “there are traitors inside the Trump White House,” and another declared that “this is a potential crisis in the party — it sounds like Bernie Sanders economics.”
https://www.levernews.com/is-the-gops-tax-revolt-collapsing/

Better late than never.

[calimary]

1. Do I hear faint noises of chicken squawking in the distance?

Just asking, for a friend.

[gab13by13]

2. All say, better late than never

Back in the 1920's they called it, Horse & Sparrow Economics,

Feed the horse more oats and the sparrows will have plenty to eat.

Reagan changed the name to Trickle Down economics, but it's the same thing.

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6. Trickle down sounds worse than horse & sparrow until you realize how the sparrow gets the seed.

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3. Oh sure. Sop for the rest of us after we've crossed the tipping point.

Wealth is concentrated now more than it's ever been, even right before the Great Depression. No republican plan will reverse this. Concentration will continue in that direction even with a modest policy retreat.

If they do this, it will 100% be a con on the rest of us to accept the current policy of ever-increasing concentration in the hands of billionaires who have demonstrated a tendency to destroy more than they create.

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5. I see it as an opportunity for Democrats to go full speed ahead with

policy to end the existence of billionaires.

No such thing as a good billionaire.

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7. That would put republicans in an awkward spot

If they actually advance a proposal for, say, a 3% increaee increase in taxes on billionaires to pay for a $300 check for the rest of us, it's then hard for them to object to a counter by us for a 10% hike on the rich to pay for $1000 for the rest of us.

I mean, they'll always call us socil1sts regardless, but still....

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9. Our side should not be afraid of that label, best to embrace it... the Robber barons

have been exposed.

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4. The only taxes they focused on were the monies spent on programs & services for people they don't like.

There's too much ignorance about how much government provides for all of us. There's also a disbelief that anyone would cut a department that inspects food safety or broadcasts severe weather alerts. WTAF??? There have to be a ton of repubs, who aren't cult, shaking their heads. ??? Or are they all stubborn asses who will never admit they made a mistake? That's what I'm beginning to think when all I hear is silence from some of the folks I know who voted for this asshole three times just cuz they'd never vote for a dem.

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8. I agree about the level of ignorance yet Trump is using performance art to show

his virility to the world. He did not plan on red state voters being appalled at what they are doing.

Best indicator was when Johnson gave the edict, no more town halls.


That is where our opportunities rest, among others.

[madinmaryland]

10. So the Republicans are finally drown Grover Norquist in a bathtub.

[usonian]

11. They are extremely slow on the uptake of the very obvious.

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Until the FAFO hits?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219770873

Time for new ones?

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12. Sad but true. ha ha ha

We have an opportunity, which is all I see thus far. We should take it and keep after the oligarchs.

[Skittles]

13. now repukes are showing just what they are willing to trash to pay for those tax cuts for the wealthy

not so appealing