me_irl

They really need to remove the income cap on the FICA tax here. It's regressive.

Yep, and that's the point. It's the same reason why the rich pay a pittance in taxes and the poor van barely survive and get next to nothing from the government (which wants to take even that away).

It's the same thing we see internationally as well. It's why foreign leaders who try to care about their people are always labeled 'militia leaders' or despots, since it's easier to use thought terminating cliches instead of acknowledging how they're fighting against the colonialist and extractive "agreements" that are foisted upon them.

The point is to make the "lower class" desperate to survive so they don't have the means to better themselves and survive without them.