It’s really hard to support somebody like Kennedy when you know his actual positions, and that they’re driven by the fact that a worm ate part of his brain
They’re not useless, but they have an error that can be several points larger than the given margin of error. What this is telling is is that it’s a close election. And that’s a big deal
That might help a little, but laws don’t help stop fascism because the Republican judges and prosecutors are all OK with bribery when a Republican does it.
You can’t do that unless you hold power though, and that means not just Congress and the Presidency, but also the courts, since they’ve ruled that money is speech. And getting there means actually kicking in money to help elect candidates willing to make that change. (Or paying in both blood and treasure through a revolution, which is a lot less likely)
The point is asking them to pay a higher percentage because they’ve benefitted more from the way society is put together. Not to end all other taxation.
The decision to keep fraudulent books in order to pay off Stormy Daniels via the National Inquirer happened just after the “grab them by the pussy” tape came out, so they’re having testimony about the tap in order to provide context to the jury.
We mostly don’t want to do that — billionaires have a much greater ability to pay and are harmed far less by paying more. So it makes sense to have a progressive tax system, where the more you earn, the higher the marginal tax rate.
And you don’t want to allow people to hide personal expenses as business expenses, and the likes, which is where much of the complexity of the tax code comes from.