How can we justify taxing the lowest earners at 25% when our peers are only asking for 17%? We’re being squeezed so hard already, and now we’re eight points higher than everyone else—what kind of fairness is that? They want us to pay 15% so struggling families can keep more of what little they have, but our leaders act like it’s a crime to demand basic economic decency.
The numbers behind the demand
Previous
25%
Tax rate when demanded
Right now
15%
Current tax rate
— delivered
What voters want
≤ 15%
Cut the rate to no higher than 15%
🎉 Delivered on Oct. 17, 2024 via the budget that passed.
Next election on 11 March 2028 (in 3 years).
Pledges (2)
Opportunity
pledged Oct. 4, 2024
Delivered
“We will deliver this by shifting the tax burden to higher income earners while carefully managing government expenditure.”
Democratic Socialists Of Asterhaven
pledged Oct. 17, 2024
Delivered
“I pledge to deliver this proposal for the”