Trump Tax Break for ‘Hardworking Families’ Hands $29bn Profit Boost to One of World’s Richest Men
26th February 2018
The article assumes, and assumes that the reader agrees, that this is ipso facto a bad thing.
No thought or discussion is given to the base fact that it consists of the government taking less of the company’s profit than it otherwise would have. Apparently decreased government theft is a serious moral failing.
Or perhaps it’s the fact that cutting taxes not only helps poor people but rich people as well, which it can’t fail to do since the rich are the ones who pay most of the taxes after all. Apparently it’s a moral failing as well to help poor people if there’s any possibility that a rich person might benefit as well.
And of course nobody bothers to mention that Buffet could just write a check to the IRS if he were seriously bothered about all the money he’s making. Yet he never does, and nobody ever notices.