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The reflexive call to raise interest rates to cool housing prices is a dangerous myth. Higher rates don’t punish the wealthy; they punish you for not being wealthy already. The renter-owner gap isn’t a market glitch—it’s a structural wealth transfer from non-owners to owners, permanently locking you out of the middle class.
Missouri’s vote to abolish income tax sounds like a win for freedom, but the math reveals a hidden burden shift: the lost revenue must be replaced by regressive sales taxes that hit the poor hardest. This isn’t just a state issue — it’s a template for a nationwide race to the bottom that will leave low- and middle-income families paying for the rich’s tax break.
An AI tax isn’t about raising government revenue — it’s a tariff on human obsolescence. As AI replaces $100k workers with $10k of compute, taxing the $90k delta is the only way to fund the displaced worker’s survival and prevent the collapse of the middle class. This is the policy debate that will define your economic future.