Dana7360
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who is more likely to give you a job...some worthless welfare lifer...or a billionairePropublica is out with another blockbuster story on the IRS and who isn't paying their taxes—25 billionaires, among the world's richest people, one of whom even manipulated the system so much he got a $4,000 tax credit for his children.
The consequences are stark. As of 2018, the 25 billionaires were collectively worth $1.1 trillion. It would require the combined wealth of 14.3 million regular wage earners to equal that. Those wage earners paid $143 billion in taxes in 2018. Those holding $1.1 trillion that year paid $1.9 billion. Here's the really frustrating part: "billionaires don’t have to evade taxes exotically and illicitly — they can avoid them routinely and legally." They hold their wealth in dividends, stocks, bonds, and other investments that are taxed at lower rates than wages.
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.www.propublica.org
So wage earners should pay more in taxes than billionaires? 100 times more?
Your post is so ridiculous.
Billionaires don't create jobs at the same rate as middle class small business people.
Small business is the backbone of our economy. It always has been and always will be.
A middle class small business owners hire more people than billionaires.
Yes, millions of people are hired and paid a living wage by middle class small business owners.
The filthy rich don't pay their fair share in taxes in this nation. Our nation can't pay our bills or properly maintain our infrastructure yet you don't want the filthy rich to pay their fair share and use such totally lame excuses to do it.
Bite me.