7 Ways Democrats Would Raise Taxes On People Making Less Than $400,000

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : The financial pain, which is supposed to discourage gun ownership, will assure that only the wealthy can protect themselves, while those in the most crime-ridden neighborhoods would have a more difficult time defending themselves (and be poorer, to boot).
52% : " And they recognize, "The power to tax is the power to destroy."
50% : Inflation is a form of taxation.
49% : " They are weighing three separate proposals: "a per-ton tax" on the carbon dioxide content of such fossil fuels as coal, oil, and natural gas starting at $15 per ton and "escalating over time"; "a tax" on industries like U.S. steel or cement makers for each ton of CO2 emissions; or "a per-barrel tax" on crude oil.
42% : The ACA, conventionally known as Obamacare, punitively fines anyone who fails to purchase a qualified health insurance plan $695 for a single person or as much as $2,085 for a family of four.
40% : "Regardless of one's opinion on guns and gun control, it is obvious that this proposal will disproportionately impact poor and working-class communities," wrote Brooklyn-based labor organizer Kim Kelly in The Washington Post. "
30% : President Joe Biden promised voters on the campaign trail, "If you make under $400,000, you will not pay a penny more in taxes when I'm president."
21% : While reckless government spending did not begin with President Biden, his embrace of multiple trillion-dollar plans will put the downward slide into warp speed.
19% : Chief Justice John Roberts famously defined this penalty as a tax in the Supreme Court ruling that saved Obamacare from being overturned.

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