I might be a bleeding heart liberal ... but first and foremost I'm a capitalist ... what's good for the rich is good for the rich ... who cares about everyone else? ...
Not many bleeding heart liberals are also capitalists, not sure how you managed that.
"who cares about everyone else? ..."
I gotta tell you, I don't see the democrats caring more about everyone else than the repubs do, and I can make an argument to support that. Starting with the way our democrat-run big cities allow riots, death, and destruction to continue unless of course it's somebody on the Right that does it. If you don't have public safety and security then you basically got anarchy, and almost all of it is in blue cities and states. That doesn't say much for caring about everybody but the rich.
When the democrats want to raise corporate taxes from 21% to 28%, who do you think pays for that? The rich guys do surely, a big chunk of it but so do the employees and consumers out there. When they try to raise the minimum wage to $15, who do you think will pay the higher labor costs? You guys talk about the poorly paid employee, but what about everyone else? Are the democrats really helping the non-rich when they do that? You saw were the CBO came out and said that 1.3 million jobs could be lost, right? How many small businesses won't be able to absorb the higher costs of labor, and they close up. You don't think that'll happen?
Now let's talk about Trump. When he was in office, wages went up and so did employment for minorities and women, at least until the pandemic hit. His policies show more caring than what Biden wants to do these days, IMHO. You say you are a capitalist, the you know that the lifeblood of capital is is capital, i.e., money that gets invested in an enterprise somewhere, or in research and development than results in innovative new products and procedures that improve our quality and way of life. I don't know how anyone can argue that taxing the rich doesn't result in less capital investment, which means less innovation and less new or expanding enterprises. IOW, you can't **** the golden goose and expect the same number of golden eggs. Sooner or later, that goose is going to fly off elsewhere.
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