The predominantly ludicrous lawmaker from Georgia did Biden a solid this weekend, telling Republicans the Democratic president is fiendishly attempting to make people’s lives better.

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      58·
      1 year ago

      End occupational licensing, end single family zoning, cut corporate taxes, encourage freer trade and common markets. Raise taxes on non-poor people to pay for social programs. These are core neoliberal tenets.

      Why do you want to make being poor even harder? These are evidenced-based methods of helping poor people.

      • Mayoman68@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        1 year ago

        I find the “raise taxes to pay for social programs” and “cut corporate taxes” to be somewhat contradictory. Reagan and Thatcher were textbook neoliberals if you need any examples, and they destroyed social programs and labor unions rather than supporting them.

        • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          1 year ago

          In the 80s people also smoked indoors everywhere. Lots of dumb shit happened in the 80s. Then, over 40 years, people got smarter.

          Individual taxes need to go up. Corporate taxes do not

          • Mayoman68@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            I fail to see why you think helping corporations earning money will help individuals, especially with raising taxes on them. Corporations’ interests are lower wages and higher prices, worker’s interests are higher wages and lower prices. The only way to then increase wages is to force companies to do so, either through job disloyalty, strikes, regulations, or etc. Don’t see how lower taxes will make them pay more.

            • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Lowering corporate taxes helps people because corporate taxes are across the entire sector and thus are more easily priced in (because your competition is also likely to do so). Consumers pay for the majority of every corporate tax increase.

              Wages can be increased through encouraging unionization, passing single-payer health care, etc.

              Lowering corporate taxes may have some slight impact on merit pay and even wages as a whole, but it would almost certainly be focused on white collar jobs. I’m not opposed to that, but it isn’t a primary concern