Dentali wrote:"It could indeed be a violation of equal protections if we implement it incorrectly... we just need to be careful and deliberate about it. As for your other request... doubling the EITC will functionally lift minimum wage earners out of the federal income tax and indeed I will pin it to inflation."
"Indeed i've read Smith intensely, but recently i've been reading Hayek."
"Capitalism was always meant to come with a fairly distributed tax burden, and good wages were part of ensuring the eponymous Wealth of Nations. We are losing voters not simply because of all manner of other issues, but because our capitalist system is not working for the people who would otherwise naturally become happy capitalists. We cannot make the case to a service worker in two jobs that capitalism is working when it does not work for them. I believe in capitalism, and I want to save it. That's why this is so important. Because otherwise that slide to the left will be relentless. We cannot pretend there isn't a crisis, the crisis is here and now." He scratched his chin a little. "The tax credit will be tricky to implement if the IRS remains broken. How do you plan on fixing that?"
