re: #177 jc717

What’s even more unbelievable is how many middle/lower class people keep voting for them. It’s insane.

A depressingly large number of people don’t understand how progressive taxation works, for example, and think that it’s possible under normal progressive taxation (leaving aside deductions etc.) for your take-home income to go down when you earn enough to go into the next tax bracket.

Even more depressing, a lot of those people, when corrected, when they understand they were wrong, do not change their positions or thinking on taxation one bit. It’s not formed from rational response, but from cultural and kinship in-grouping, I think.

Hard to fight human nature, but it’s possible.