{"id":2970,"date":"2025-07-04T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2025-07-02T19:06:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:06:58","slug":"our-democracy-demands-that-we-tax-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/our-democracy-demands-that-we-tax-the-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Democracy Demands that We Tax the Rich!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is amazing how lightly taxed our richest people are compared to everyone else.\u00a0 It could destroy our democracy if we don\u2019t change it. Concentrated wealth is destroying our country. We must start making the rich pay their fair share.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>We Must Reform Our Regressive Capital Gains Tax for the Sake of Our Democracy<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/opinion\/reform-regressive-capital-gains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/opinion\/reform-regressive-capital-gains<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>RELATED HOT LINKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/patrioticmillionaires.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patriotic Millionaires<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxpayer.net\/budget-appropriations-tax\/tcs-statement-on-the-senate-passage-of-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taxpayers for Common Sense<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/americansfortaxfairness.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Americans for Tax Fairness<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ctj.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Citizens for Tax Justice<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ourfinancialsecurity.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Americans for Financial Reform<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/inequality.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inequality.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/other98.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Other98<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hedgeclippers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hedge Clippers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Featured in our Design Shop<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bluecrabcollective.threadless.com\/designs\/tax-the-rich-the-frog-baron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-02-at-13-25-05-TAX-THE-RICH-The-Frog-Baron-Mens-T-Shirt-Blue-Crab-Collective-Activism-Designs.png\" alt=\"Activism Designs - Tax the Rich\" width=\"499\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-02-at-13-25-05-TAX-THE-RICH-The-Frog-Baron-Mens-T-Shirt-Blue-Crab-Collective-Activism-Designs.png 640w, https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-02-at-13-25-05-TAX-THE-RICH-The-Frog-Baron-Mens-T-Shirt-Blue-Crab-Collective-Activism-Designs-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-02-at-13-25-05-TAX-THE-RICH-The-Frog-Baron-Mens-T-Shirt-Blue-Crab-Collective-Activism-Designs-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Check out all of our ACTIVISM DESIGNS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is amazing how lightly taxed our richest people are compared to everyone else.\u00a0 It could destroy our democracy if we don\u2019t change it. Concentrated wealth is destroying our country. We must start making the rich pay their fair share. We Must Reform Our Regressive Capital Gains Tax for the Sake of Our Democracy https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/opinion\/reform-regressive-capital-gains&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/our-democracy-demands-that-we-tax-the-rich\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Our Democracy Demands that We Tax the Rich!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,53,41,40,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act-now","category-global","category-news","category-politics","category-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2981,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions\/2981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}