Liberals in the United States are also the enemies of the proletariat/working class.

The first points I shall make is that liberals tend to support sales, gas, and social security taxes.Sales TaxEvery single liberal state in the United States of America, except for Oregon and New Hampshire, have a sales tax, and several of them are some of the highest, such as California's, New York's, and Washington's [1]. The problem with the sales tax is that, while it appears to be a flat tax, it is, in reality, a regressive tax. The poor are the ones who have to spend a higher percent of their money than the rich do, as the rich saves 6 times more money(as a percentage of overall money) than the poor[2]. Thus, in this instance, liberals are making things harder for the poor and middle classes.Gas TaxLiberal states tend to, not only have gasoline taxes, but also higher gasoline taxes than other states[3]. Since the poor and middle classes spend more of their income on gas and transportation than the rich[2], this is also a regressive tax. Liberals are also making it harder for the poor and middle classes in this case.Social Security Tax:While this tax is not a regressive tax, it is a flat tax, which is still detrimental to the poor, working class. Paying 6.5% of your income is more detrimental to the poor than the rich. Let's take an example: suppose person A makes $20,000 a year, and person B makes $500,000 a year. Both pay 6.5% in social security taxes. 6.5% is more detrimental to the person 20,000 because now they only have $18,700, which is hard to live off of, whereas person B has plenty of money left over: $467,500, which is plenty to live off of. Moving on, I shall point out that liberals are interested in maintaining a capitalist society, more or less. They never do call for the dissolution of capitalism, and generally attempt to make capitalism work better for workers, without realizing that capitalism inherently won't be better for the workers. Sure, some things can be improved through regulation, but it won't solve all problems. I will only point out problems that are inherent to capitalism that no amount of regulation(unless it is regulation that destroys the fundamentals of capitalism) can fix. Liberals don't generally support these ideas either way.Capitalism gives no to little consent to the workersUnder capitalism, for all intents and purposes, business owners are leaders and are people with a lot of power: after all, they are the ones who decide whether you get to work for a living. However, no one consented to having these people be the ones who decide to have such power. Workers did not get to consent to who hires and fires people in the company, it's as though they don't matter for this respect, even though their co-workers are people they will have to put up with as well. Capitalism is essentially like a monarchy: you have one person at the top of an entity(business) who decides everything about that business. We are supposed to value democracy in the United States and most of the western world, yet basically no western nation has a democratic economy.Capitalism takes money away from workersThe main problem with capitalism is it is a hierarchical system which has people at the top which take money away from what could be going to the workers. I believe that a business owner is completely unnecessary, and only is a position of power that takes away profit that could be going to the worker. If I establish that a business owner is unnecessary, then this shows that capitalism is an enemy of the workers, as it keeps them below a certain wage. I would like to make the point that businesses can only offer a maximum wage to their employees before they no longer make a profit, the fact that the business owner also takes a percent of the profit, means they are taking something which could be going to increase the workers' wages. A viable alternatative to the capitalist business model would be workers' cooperatives. Since this is not a debate on cooperatives, I would like to point towards another debate of mine about cooperatives if you wish to know more: [4] Therefore, since liberals encourage taxes that hurt the poor the most, and are not opposed to the capitalist system, they are enemies of the working class and the proletariat.I believe that is all I have for my argument and I turn this debate over to con to offer their main arguments. Sources:[1] http://taxfoundation.org...;[2] http://www.npr.org...;[3] https://en.wikipedia.org...;[4] http://www.debate.org...;