{"id":92951,"date":"2025-03-14T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=92951"},"modified":"2025-03-13T09:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:47:11","slug":"qotd-you-cant-cut-taxes-without-disproportionally-benefitting-the-wealthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/03\/14\/qotd-you-cant-cut-taxes-without-disproportionally-benefitting-the-wealthy\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: You <em>can&#8217;t<\/em> cut taxes without disproportionally benefitting &#8220;the wealthy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>[Responding to a Robert Reich post against tax cuts because they&#8217;ll aid the rich more than the average taxpayer]<\/p>\n<p>Anybody who uses the phrase &#8220;tax cuts for the wealthy&#8221; to gin up opposition to lowering taxes is either a dupe or a villain. <\/p>\n<p>How do I know this? Do some research. Find a graph of how income taxes paid segregates by wealth of the payer. I&#8217;d post one here, but X hates links.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom 40% in income pay effectively nothing in income tax. The &#8220;rich&#8221; pay such a disproportionately high percentage of it that the tax take of entire states can be significantly affected by a handful of high-net-worth individuals moving out. In Europe this happens to small <em>countries<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this, it is effectively impossible to cut taxes in any way at all without disproportionately benefiting the &#8220;wealthy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When demagogues like Reich honk about &#8220;tax cuts for the wealthy&#8221;, what they actually mean is: taxes should <em>never decrease<\/em>. The state should confiscate and reallocate more and more wealth, forever and ever, amen.<\/p>\n<p>ESR, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/esrtweet\/status\/1864715978271068164\" target=\"_blank\"> rel=&#8221;noopener&#8221;>X.com, 2024-12-05.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Responding to a Robert Reich post against tax cuts because they&#8217;ll aid the rich more than the average taxpayer] Anybody who uses the phrase &#8220;tax cuts for the wealthy&#8221; to gin up opposition to lowering taxes is either a dupe or a villain. How do I know this? Do some research. Find a graph of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,84,41,13],"tags":[1235,1020,118],"class_list":["post-92951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-esr","tag-progressives","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-obd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92951"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94622,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92951\/revisions\/94622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}