Because, to the surprise of literally nobody who's ever been on the receiving end of these sorts of policies they cook up in far away think tank offices and the ivory towers of academia, there's a million ways to make the number go up that doesn't actually make normal people any better off.

At this point, I'd settle for not being better off. It'd be a helluva lot better than everything getting worse.

We need to eat the fucking rich. Bnch of parasitic fuckwads.