A populist attack on the U.S. economic system, arguing it rewards investors over regular workers — bad news for defenders of the current tax setup, appealing to voters who feel left behind.

• The core complaint: investment income is taxed at less than half the rate of wages earned from work, which is called deeply unfair.
• The bigger argument is that an economy should serve the people living in it, not just push up GDP numbers or make the wealthy richer.
• This is pitched as neither socialism nor free-market orthodoxy, but a middle stance that many Americans supposedly share.
• It pairs social conservatism (family, anti-abortion) with economic skepticism of the status quo.

Outlook: Expect this "workers over investors" tax-fairness theme to keep spreading on the populist right as a wedge against traditional pro-business conservatism.