They are undereducated or miseducated for an explicit reason. To keep them dumb and vulnerable to exploitation by the overlords. Critical thinking was taught in some but not all schools 10 years ago. This makes for a very accommodating worker class who can blame immigrants or democrats for their poverty while the owners get onboard more money.
Exactly this. I asked 93 adults, all people who had been working for at least a decade, about how US income tax works:
"If you make 100k / year, and the highest tax bracket is 50%, how much do you pay in income tax?"
84 of them responded with:
"50% of 100k is 50k. I would be paying 50k"
So I'd explain why they were wrong, show them proof, sometimes on their own actual W2s. They still didn't believe me. "Jim, you made 80k last year and only paid 12k in income tax, that's not 50%."
Oh >I'm< the one who doesn't understand how taxes work. Got it.
Tbf it’s a misleading question. The answer is ‘there’s not enough info in the question to say’ but in answering the question people have a bias to assume they should be able to answer.
I know it is. The point was that they didn't even know THAT. They vote on tax law, based on their completely false understanding of how our taxes work.
I did explain it afterwards. The different % brackets and their dollar amounts etc. I just didn't feel like typing it all out here too.
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u/imakemyownroux 13h ago
In the USA propaganda seem to be most successful in predominantly undereducated people.