Nobody will do anything about it. American politics runs on promising voters free stuff without higher taxes (“no taxes on tips”). Meanwhile, the people are innumerate. Half the country thinks you can balance the budget by cutting out “fraud and waste” and the other half thinks you can do it by “taxing billionaires.” Everyone is too ignorant about the world outside the U.S. to look at what middle class taxes look like in places like Sweden or France that offer all the social services they want here.
It’ll also keep getting worse as the country fractures into more and more blocs that can be kept together only through the promise of more free stuff
that someone else will pay for.
It’ll also keep getting worse as the country fractures into more and more blocs that can be kept together only through the promise of more free stuff that someone else will pay for.