I don;t think she's going to be nominated or win if she is. In any case, it requires Congress to pass legislation, and they only tweak taxes. Not enough to hurt the rich. There are always loopholes the rich can take advantage of that the rest of us can't. In any case, most Americans don't care about rich people and actually admire them. Only socialists who want to redistribute wealth hate them. Most Americans are worried about health care for themselves and their own financial issues. They don;t walk around wanted to "punish" the rich for being successful. They wish they were one of them and hope some day to be successful like them. This still is America after all.
An interesting collection of thoughts, there.
As we, the poor, can't "take advantage" of loopholes because we have no money on whose behalf to take that advantage, it shouldn't upset us if "the rich" can: the thing's academic.
That "most Americans are worried about health care for themselves and their own financial issues" kinda tells me that most Americans would be better of and enjoy a far more calm lifestyle, free of health worry, if they embraced one if those dreadful "socialist" parties that embraced a social health system that was absolute.
Your final point, that Americans don't grudge you your success, but rather strive for it themselves is something I always believed was true - but I don't know any Americans these days other than rather rich ones, so my view could be out if date - and was something I found in stark contrast to most of the Brits I used to know, who hated others doing well if they could not. My Humber brought me a lot of flak. So when it rusted I bought a sports car, just like Keith's.
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