I’ve never figured out how Libs don’t understand the idea that if you tax less, it’s like giving everyone a raise, amazingly they have more money to spend and the economy grows. It’s not really all that complex.
The liberals like to punish and redistribute. They love big government and high levels of taxation.
Even when you point out to them that lower tax rates usually increase revenues to the Treasury they still would prefer to keep rates high.
During the 2008 presidential campaign when Obama was told that when you cut the capital gains tax rate, you get more revenue, he said it didn’t matter. He did not think a hedge fund operator should pay a lower tax rate than a salaried employee.