Comment on Calif. fast-food chains slash workers as $20-an-hour minimum wage looms

• wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s been cited ad nauseam. Only an idiot would think the rich are not paying taxes.

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  • ButWaitTheresMore@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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    • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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      • ButWaitTheresMore@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s a demented definition of “fair share.” The rich make thousands of times more money than the average American but they only account for 2x more than us? Go back to elementary school.

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