• TheMage@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Whats rich? What bill to pay, exactly? What is it you dont have that someone else should be funding. Serious question.

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      1 year ago

      You have that backwards. What taxes aren’t we collecting that could be going to everyone? Why should some 40K a year guy have to pay 10% of his income as taxes and someone like Bezos doesn’t?

      The US used to have a 69% tax rate for the ultra wealthy before Regan took office. We should bring that back.

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        1 year ago

        Bezos like most wealthy people have no standard income per se like us on regular payrolls do. So, what you want is a net worth tax. Not sure how easy that is to implement or who decides what stuff is worth. Whats wrong with a flat tax on any and all sources of income? I thing Rep. Dick Armey tried to come up with that way back when.