It's only "class warfare" when the rich are the target. Since the 1980's the wealth divide has increased, the rich got richer, working people and the poor have been losing, but that's not "class warfare."https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1089194158961684480 …
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Replying to @mikeal
No, it's class warfare when any group is a deliberate target: when harming that group is the starting point for conversations about fiscal policy. Which we are starting to see now from Democratic candidates.
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"harming" by increasing taxes on the ultra-wealthy? How is that harm by any rational definition? Taxes increase the public good: build schools, roads, pay for policemen/firefighters, etc.
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Replying to @codinghorror @mikeal
The Republicans could equally claim that "secure borders" don't harm anyone. But when Democratic candidates start naming individual people they want to tax in order to excite their supporters, it's no different from Republicans naming individual immigrants they want to deport.
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I'm not comparing taxation with deportation. I'm comparing the political tactic of naming individuals you want to tax with the political tactic of naming individuals you want to deport.
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