How we became a nation of so many dupes and fools

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1. Middle class and upper middle class people were convinced anything helping lower income people

had to be at their expense. That's why even modest tax increase proposals are always supposedly a tax on the working class and small business. The "they want what you've got" scare tactics.

In reality, those people are willing to pay higher taxes to let the wealthy off easier, they just don't know it.