And the whole premise assumes that his employees, that we, have no grasp of how his business works.
He proposes that if taxes cut into his profit, he will cut workers, to save salary, to maintain profit. When actually if he cuts workers he will lower his productivity, and lower his profits further. There is no way that higher taxes on him equals less jobs for us. Its just a deliberate threat because we all know that he does not need this business, and his lilfestyle won’t suffer one bit if he lived on his portfolio for a while. The fact is if he could increase his profit by letting go of workers he would have done that right now already.
I mean, I guess the employer is more human and entitled to more of the benefit of the doubt for supporting a fascist than the employees… after all, he owns a business, so clearly, he’s superior to the people he employs, right? /s
Yep, and at a wider level the intel communities of Five Eyes members (and frankly nations lobbying for Five Eyes membership) routinely do the domestic dirty work of spying on each others citizens and residents to circumvent laws against that.