Leaked IRS Data Show America's Super-Rich Pay "True Tax" Of 3.4%

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[–]Canbot 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Close all loopholes!

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Close all government (including the IRS) permanently.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The IRS is not a government entity, they are a private debt collector hired by the government.

[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Also close Google and Facebook, 3rd party "non-government" actors.

[–]RuckusChan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah Bezos amazon looking for a 10 Billion Dollar Bailout for a shitty sub orbital rocket

[–]crackerjack 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

3.4% of 25,000,000,000,000.00 is pretty steep rate.

dont fk me up.

[–]bjam27 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You have to be financially illiterate to believe this. It's literally not how taxation works.

[–]Pononimus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't mind rich people being rich. They haven't done anything to me, personally and, in a lot of cases, we have products and services available to us now that we otherwise might not have.

Anyone who can become super rich is, in my opinion, absolutely brilliant and deserves everything they have and I don't begrudge them for it one bit. History shows that the Super Rich have done far more good than harm. One example is that Andrew Carnegie built hundreds of free public libraries all over New York, establishing the pattern for free public libraries all over the United States. There are literally thousands of others I could site from all throughout history but I won't bore you with that.