You have a source for the rich paying their taxes? I know how you love sources
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wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 8 months agoThey do. They pay more than their fair share of the taxes. It’s not time for everyone else to chip in and pay their fair share.
In Europe, those McDonald’s worker would be paying about half their income in taxes. They should do the same here.
ButWaitTheresMore@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It’s been cited ad nauseam. Only an idiot would think the rich are not paying taxes.
ButWaitTheresMore@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Sounds like you can’t do a super easy task. For someone who loves sources like you do this should be a walk in the park.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 8 months ago
For someone ignorant of the topic, you seem to have a strong opinion.
www.cnn.com/2023/04/21/opinions/…/index.html
Surely, the rich pay a larger amount because they earn the most money, right? Not exactly. In 2020, the top 1% of taxpayers earned 22% of all adjusted gross income; their 42.3% share of the income taxes is nearly twice their share of the nation’s income. By contrast, the bottom 90% of taxpayers (about 142 million taxpayers) paid a combined $450 billion in income taxes, or just 26.3% of the total, their lowest percentage of the tax burden in decades. That means the top 1% of taxpayers pay a far greater share of the nation’s tax burden than 142 million of their neighbors combined.
Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why should the poor pay half their paychecks to taxes while the rich pay less than 40%, if they actually pay any taxes at all rather than utilize tax loopholes to avoid paying.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Where do you get that non-sense? The article i cited refutes that.