π§© BND Motif Index Β· M1074
Job creators
The rich are said to be the job creators, their wealth the businesses that employ everyone else, so taxing them taxes the workers: Cato's 'tax that wealth and you're taxing the businesses that employ us all', tax cuts for the top sold as hiring.
π£οΈ ArgumentsποΈ Money and powerποΈ Pocketbook
- 1claim filed under it
- 1claim retold online
β οΈ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
πͺ Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
βοΈ answers and mirrors:
- π§© Rich should pay their fair share the counter: taxing the rich taxes the workers
β±οΈ told here 17 days after its answer (2026-10-03 β 2026-10-20)
π§Ά Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-20 βMost billionaire wealth is productive business capital, so a wealth tax taxes the businesses that employ us all.β π§Ά people online
M1074 Β· first seen 2026-10-24 Β· last 2026-10-20 Β· what this is Β· how the index works