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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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  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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    The Republican anti-tax coalition is beginning to disintegrate | David Sirota, Arjun Singh, Ariella Markowitz and Natalie Bettendorf
    
    from https://www.theguardian.com/profile/david-sirota
    
    For half a century, the GOP has embraced tax cuts for the rich. But as Americans turn against the idea, the party is divided
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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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  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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  @inthehands @ramsey It was not true in the Reagan era.
  
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