Annie Lowrey makes some valid points in her most recent article.
"If you are going to raise a considerable amount of new income-tax revenue to finance social programs, as many Democrats want to do, dinging the top one percent won’t cut it: They are a lot richer, but a lot fewer in number. And if you are going to provide more opportunities in good neighborhoods, public schools, colleges, internship programs, and labor markets to lower-income families, it is the 20 percent that are going to have to give something up."
"Expanding opportunity and improving fairness would require the upper-middle class to vote for higher taxes, to let others move in, and to share in the wealth. Prying Harvard admission letters and the mortgage interest deductions out of the hands of bureaucrats in Bethesda, sales executives in Minnetonka, and lawyers in Louisville is not going to be easy."
"So often, the upper-middle class insulating and enriching itself at the expense of the working class has meant white families doing so at the expense of black families."
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/the-hoarding-of-the-american-dream/530481/
Its time to give some other people a chance, stop being so racist and hoarding your wealth.
>>130621542
Always archive those https://archive.is/lCzb2
>>130621542
lol no thanks i like having money
>giving money to blacks
Surely this time it will work.
>>130621542
>everyone should be poor while the globalist bankers run wild
>>130621542
My favorite part is this:
>Prying Harvard admission letters....out of the hand of bureaucrats
>She graduated from Harvard
Also she is married to (((Ezra Klein)))
>>130621542
Or you faggots could stop flooding this nation with muds driving the value of labor down and inflation up
>>130621542
>give me your money you fucking well-off white man
No
-A well-off white man.
>>130621542
>Expanding opportunity and improving fairness would require the upper-middle class to vote for higher taxes
Not entirely true. If we're talking about land and resources, the top 1% own literally all of that shit. We live in fiat world. It could be done basically by decree.
And if you are going to provide more opportunities in good neighborhoods, public schools, colleges, internship programs, and labor markets to lower-income families, it is the 20 percent that are going to have to give something up.
Perfectly fine with that. These guys have been voting to screw everyone else into the dirt for decades now.
"So often, the upper-middle class insulating and enriching itself at the expense of the working class has meant white families doing so at the expense of black families."
It's been at the expense of everyone, not just blacks. Poor rural whites have probably suffered the worst under regressive neoliberal economics.