Does Trump Know What Taxes Do?
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Most of you were probably not at home so you might have missed MSNBC’s broadcast of part of Trump’s rally today in Pueblo. During the broadcast he extolled the virtues of the military and how he wanted to build it up, make it yooge and classy. This on the heels of his past complaints about America’s infrastructure.
This offends me for many reasons–mostly because I find that people who talk up the military rarely want to put their money where their mouth is. But also because it shows a profound ignorance about how taxes work. Taxes pay for our infrastructure. You want our infrastructure to look like Germany’s? You gotta pay for it. Germans pay higher taxes than we do, and it shows. And taxes pay for our military. Now, how is a man who probably hasn’t paid taxes for decades gonna help contribute to the yooge military he desires? How is babby military formed?