Your Real Tax Burden
Workers don't just pay federal and state income tax. Their actual burden includes direct taxes AND the costs created by both parties' service to corporate interests.
Workers don't just pay federal and state income tax. Their actual burden includes direct taxes AND the costs created by both parties' service to corporate interests.
The conventional political debate operates within capitalist framing where 'jobs' are the natural state of economic organization. This is ideology masquerading as economic necessity.
Both parties are structurally captured by the same extractive interests. They serve capital, not workers. Cultural differences hide economic alignment.
Policy math works AND government is captured. Both conditions are true simultaneously. They must be solved together, not sequentially.