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(50,347 posts)yonder
(9,663 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,012 posts)**goes to front door to make sure pitch fork is sharp and torches are well soaked in kerosene**
lastlib
(23,204 posts)..for an old rusty one. An OLD, RUSTY, manure-encrusted, tetanus- and corona-infected pitchfork. With a bent tine. We want to do this right.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,012 posts)cayugafalls
(5,639 posts)Taxes owed is different than paying $0, isn't it?
My question is, Did Bezos pay $0 dollars in Fed taxes or did he pay several million in taxes and then after filing with deductions, did not owe any EXTRA?
applegrove
(118,600 posts)cayugafalls
(5,639 posts)To say he paid nothing is a great headline, however it is wrong.
Read the article:
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax
applegrove
(118,600 posts)based on.
cayugafalls
(5,639 posts)I agree most hardily with the premise of the rich paying more.
moondust
(19,972 posts)Obscene.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,562 posts)Clearly, they need to work on branding.
speaknow
(321 posts)cause he even paid more tax !
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Aussie105
(5,377 posts)Don't pay taxes if you don't have to.
And there's two ways to do that.
1. Don't earn enough to need to.
2. Be rich enough to employ some smart tax lawyers who can find the bridge across the tax river.
(Why swim across the tax river if you can find a tax bridge?)
It's the tax laws at fault.
I mean, expecting these rich types to have a heart and do something they don't want to do, if they don't have to?
Goes against all that made them rich in the first place!
And close down those tax havens! Your headquarters is in Ireland, and all your business income goes there?
Nothing to do with tax breaks, right?
NonPC
(300 posts)Hire a group of lobbyists and bribe the right people in Congress
Magoo48
(4,701 posts)are diseased, fat ticks on the backs of the worlds working people. A considerable portion of the blood they suck ends up in politicians pockets. These parasitic obstracities will drain the life from societies for as long as their obscene wealth flows.
AKwannabe
(5,641 posts)The rich get richer on the backs of the poor!
Also
Trickle down is MEGA BULLSHIT
Dont piss on me ASSHOLE
grantcart
(53,061 posts)live love laugh
(13,096 posts)Hes abiding by the law.
Ive run into many who call him or other rich people out not understanding its really the fault of the legislators they elect.
The problem is tax laws.