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They'd still make more money. Most of the high tax brackets are imposed after a threshold, for example, after your first $10 million, you can be taxed at higher rate. I don't see any problem with that at all. Why shouldn't people who are benefitting the most from our system pay more back into our system? It's not just their hard work that allows their enrichment, it's the rule of law and all of society that maintains a system that allows that accumulation of wealth.
But that's beside the point. Sure you don't agree with a progressive tax rate, but is it a sign that we're getting closer to a Stalinist state? That's what you said. I don't think so. Just like abolishing child factory labor and public schools, it's just a good idea.
I'm not arguing for communism. I am arguing against your assertion that we are closer to being a Stalinist state. Or that liberal policies are necessarily steps toward that.
Ok, sure, I agree with that. So there's one thing, Trump raised that as an issue. Do you know if that policy stopped? Well, I just looked into this and it turns out that the Post Office gets a huge profit from this deal with Amazon, so that actually helps us taxpayers it seems. The Post Office reports like $1.6 billion in profits from Amazon alone. Yes, there were uncaptured profits because of the lower deal and it still feels wrong to me. But we as the public don't "lose" anything by this deal, as it turns out.
But there's that. Trump did mention this Amazon deal. Amazon's building it's own delivery service now so it won't be a problem soon. The USPS just won't get that business anymore.