• snooggums@midwest.social
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    In the US you can deduct the mortgage interest, which is even more of a benefit for the wealthy than the mortgage as a whole would be since the deduction decreases the longer someone stays in a home.

    Social security being a flat percentage with a cap is also a form of class war.

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      Investment income being taxed less than employment income is another form of class warfare.

      Why the hell do you pay more in taxes than Elon Musk?

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        Yup, and all of these are sold as benefitting the non-wealthy while glossing over how much more it benefits the wealthy.