"End ICE detention and deportations and punish federal agents' brutality. Legalize migration, grant amnesty for all immigrants regardless of status, provide a path to citizenship for all permanent residents, and end visa caps and quotas." - DSA https://program.dsausa.org/
My nose is effective for counting, as in the U.S. Census, as noted earlier, but, as employed for the sense of smell, this nose is sub-standard, meaning my sense of taste is also diminished. Result, by the DSA's analysis of alleged useless things, I should cut it off. Defund the police. We do not need law enforcement, according to the DSA, because everyone is law-abiding. That's a joke, right? Abolish the Presidency, the Congress, and the Court. Replace the Constitution. Now, abolish ICE. Why not all government agencies, departments, and councils? According to DSA, we don't need a government, we must replace it with a giverment.
Is this what we really want? It's all okay. Just tax the wealthy, yes? What is "wealth" according to the DSA? That depends on the various echelons of "wealth" DSA defines:
• Upper middle class: $700,000 to $1 million Pop: 1.5M
• Luxury owners: > $1 million Pop: 20M
• Multi-millionaires: $10 million > Pop: 26,000
• Billionaires: $1 billion> Pop: 989
From $700,000 annual increase and above, DSA's answer is to add additional taxation to these wealthy earners, ignoring that no taxpayer in America pays taxes by this currency they call "taxes." We all pay in the currency known as "dollars." That fact is, this designated "wealthy" class already pays, in the DSA vernacular, 40% of all income taxes paid in the U.S. annually. These are called the top 1% earners. That is about $5.2T. https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/government-revenue/ with $2.1T paid by the four income levels noted just above.
If one adds the next lower income level, $250,000 to $699,999, adds another 20%, or 60% total of the entire U.S. personal annual income tax revenue, or $3.1T. All those earning $250,000 and greater amount to 35% of the US population of 340M people. Cut it any way one wishes, 35% of all US taxpayers, 119M people, pay 60% of all income tax. Is a ratio of 60:35 a "fair share" claimed by many Democrats before the DSA platform, which demands a greater "fair share"? Maybe one needs a better understanding of ratio values. Does education ring a bell? [See part 8, where, by typical education as it once was, learning the calculation and function of ratio was taught in that American guaranteed free education range, K-12 ] How's that for a cold bath? Y'all want to abolish that? That tactic is called a house divided, and Lincoln, a real American, taught us all about that. Maybe American education under DSA dismisses Lincoln. He was just a President, after all. Dismissible, that is, by DSA.