• Steve@startrek.website
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    8 months ago

    Really dishonest to put Elon Musk in the thumbnail. He literally paid the largest tax bill in history, when he could have avoided paying.

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      8 months ago

      You’d damn well hope that the richest person in the world would pay the most tax

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      8 months ago

      He made considerably more than 30 billion that year. That number based on the 1/3rd the working class pays.
      Taxes on the rich should go back to to 70% they used to be.

      There were rich people back then, just like now.

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        8 months ago

        My only quibble is that I think the top marginal rate should go back at least to the 94% it was in 1944, not just 70%. In fact, I’m not sure there is any reason the top marginal rate shouldn’t just be permanently set to 100%, with the only variable being how high that margin is.

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          8 months ago

          Oh I absolutely agree.

          I only recalled at the time that it was at one point 70%, couldn’t be arsed to research further at the time for a mere online comment.

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      8 months ago

      Must paid less than $100k in taxes in 2015 and 2017, $zero in 2018, and threw a giant hissy fit about paying the paltry 5% or whatever it was that was “the biggest tax bill in history”.

      The man has more money than God and can’t fathom paying his fair share.