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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 10:59:49 JST Paul Cantrell

   Have any serious pollsters done a deep investigation of the popularity of “tax the living shit out of billionaires” as a political platform in heavily red rural areas?

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 11:00:30 JST Paul Cantrell

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     In the right-wing exurbs, I know that wouldn’t fly. But I’m genuinely curious about how the truly rural US would react to it.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 13:25:37 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Ben Ramsey

     @ramsey
     Yeah, that was for sure the case when I was growing up in the Reagan era. I wonder how much it’s still true. Surely greater than zero, but….

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     Ben Ramsey (ramsey@phpc.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 13:25:39 JST Ben Ramsey

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     @inthehands A lot of them have bought into the idea that we need to reduce taxes on the wealthy because they will use that money to create jobs.

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     Denis (constantorbit@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 21:30:14 JST Denis

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     @inthehands this showed up in the Guardian today. So perhaps this particular Republican con game is losing it's legs (after decades of damage)

     https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/24/republican-anti-tax-coalition-trump

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 22:01:03 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @sbi @ramsey
     To be clear, I meant it was the case that people believed it — not that it was actually a thing we needed to do

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     sbi (sbi@toot.berlin)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 22:01:05 JST sbi

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     • Ben Ramsey

     @inthehands @ramsey It was not true in the Reagan era.