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sagesnow

(2,824 posts) Sun Nov 17, 2019, 01:18 PM Nov 2019

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The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You NYT

"Ask yourself this: If efforts to tax the super-rich were really doomed to fail, why would so many of the super-rich be fighting so hard to defeat those efforts?"

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html

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The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You NYT (Original Post) sagesnow Nov 2019 OP

They are afraid because when the world doesn't end because we raised their taxes, we may start brewens Nov 2019 #1

K&R ck4829 Nov 2019 #2

I just want them to pay the same percentage i do! hydrolastic Nov 2019 #3

brewens

(13,582 posts)

1. They are afraid because when the world doesn't end because we raised their taxes, we may start

Reply to sagesnow (Original post)

Sun Nov 17, 2019, 01:28 PM

Nov 2019

thinking they should pay off their debt.

ck4829

(35,070 posts)

2. K&R

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Fri Nov 22, 2019, 08:36 AM

Nov 2019

hydrolastic

(487 posts)

3. I just want them to pay the same percentage i do!

Reply to ck4829 (Reply #2)

Sat Nov 23, 2019, 11:47 PM

Nov 2019

combined with employer matching taxes thats 38%!!!

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