david

They'll notice that they benefit from taxation so they'll be happier with a higher tax economy and see that tax cuts hurt them more than help them.

That's definitely also true, but republicans genuinely want everyone to hate taxation as well, so their interests very much align with the companies that want to fleece you.

Lots of countries have pay as you earn schemes where your income tax is deducted but your employer and sent to the government and you don't have to even lift a finger, likewise the price on the item at the shop, by law, includes tax and it's completely seamless for you. Republicans will never like such schemes because they want taxation to be hated by all so that they'll go along with tax cuts that primarily benefit such folks.

If government was done well, people might be happy paying their taxes, and that's the last thing republicans want.

This is great, but republicans are gonna hate it. They want everyone to hate taxes with a passion, so they make it difficult, time consuming and expensive to pay your taxes, and make government services as bad as possible so even poorer people who don't pay much tax feel they get a bad deal out of taxation.

If ordinary people found it easy and convenient to pay taxes they might notice that they get more out of government than they put in and that rich people are bearing more of the cost than they are. If they thought that, they might support tax increases or things that horrify republicans like medicaid for all.

They locked up the suffragettes for protesting too, back before women had the vote.

We were only a leader in cutting emissions because we were so badly reliant on coal fired power stations and have moved away from that. We still do a lot worse than France for example, who we beat in percentage reduction terms, but we still emit much worse than they do!

Well, nothing we didn't already know and fail to apply, anyway.

It's better for the planet too.

This is genuinely lovely, but surely that's a weir, not a waterfall?

I'm happy to let mods carve out a bunch of niche communities with their own preferences. The fediverse is a big place. If you don't like instances that are protective of LGBT+ folks you're cutting it down a bit, but genuinely, you seem to be deliberately picking topics that troll the specific community you're posting on, then you complained that they took it down. Post where your post will be welcome, stop complaining when you post where you already know it's not. Reddit and twitter are pretty right wing and troll friendly. Maybe you'll be happier there.

One of my best friends says Tony Blair was the best Tory prime minister we ever had.

If I was a betting man, I would put money on them soon enough blaming leftie lawyers for the forthcoming downturn in custodial sentences.