the joke was that in the USA you can be multi millionaire+ wealthy and pay 0% tax

That is the actual joke here, agreed. If, and that’s a pretty damn big if, there was any sense on USA government they could just take our progressive steps and leave everything above 35% away from it and still have a crapload of budget to actually make their country great again.

But spending 100 million bucks per hour to demolish schools half way across the world is cool too I guess.