Zone1 Only Tax Payers should be allowed to vote

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Guest Essay

It’s Time to Tax the Billionaires​

By Gabriel Zucman

Gabriel Zucman is an economist at the Paris School of Economics and the University of California, Berkeley.

May 3, 2024

In the 1960s, the 400 richest Americans paid more than half of their income in taxes.Higher tax rates for the wealthy kept inequality in check and helped fund the creation of social safety nets like Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps.

Today, the superrich control a greater share of America’s wealth than during the Gilded Age of Carnegies and Rockefellers.That's partly because taxes on the wealthy have cratered. In 2018, America's top billionaires paid just 23 percent of their income in taxes.

For the first time in the history of the United States, billionaires had a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.

Opinion | It’s Time to Tax the Billionaires (Published 2024)

Billionaires are experts at avoiding taxes. By banding together, countries can make them pay up.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Fuk off a**hole. Nothing I posted was incorrect.

Why don't you go play in traffic.

Everything you posted was incorrect, you douchebag!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Spoken like a true believer.

I guess you slept through Rachel the Mad Cow's getting a hold of one of Trump's old tax returns and do a full show on his return. She was embarrassed and laughed off the air when it showed he paid several million dollars in taxes that year. They never llooked at it before the show to see they had a nothing burger with extra cheese!

 

[Moonglow]

If people are dependent on taxpayers, they shouldn't have the right to vote themselves more money from the taxpayers' pockets.

How to spend tax money should be made by those with skin in the game and paying it, not by people who are only taking from it.

If an item has a tariff placed upon and is bought, it is paying a tax.

 

[IM2]

All eligible people should vote. There are peple working 40's who don't earn enough to pay taxes, so screw this silly idea.

 

[pknopp]

Why shouldn't he hide his returns when every liberal media outlet will dissect it and lie about everything contained therein like they always do?

Why? He promised to release them.

 

[pknopp]

No one noted how there are illegals that pay taxes.........

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Take it up with slow horse, he's the one that claimed otherwise.

Nope, you are lying again.

 

[mudwhistle]

Everything you posted was incorrect, you douchebag!

Does someone pay you to act this stupid, or are you just doing it on your own?

I've been paying into the fund for 40 years or more. I know how it's funded.

Shitforbrains.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Does someone pay you to act this stupid, or are you just doing it on your own?

I've been paying into the fund for 40 years or more. I know how it's funded.

Shitforbrains.

Apparently, you don't, or you wouldn't post stupid shit like you did. The money is not wasted, despite your ignorance of the fact that the funds are still there in the form of Treasury notes.

Your posted:
"Meaning the Democrats can steal from the fund all they want and not even have to account for the missing cash.

This is how they jacked the debt up to $37 trillion."

No one "stole" anything. Especially not Democrats, as Republicans have been "in on it" from the beginning because they can't change the system if they wanted to! The debt was borrowed, and has absolutely nothing to do with SS funds. There! Now correct your ******* jackass ignorance, you **** waffle!

If you want to ***** about something, at least know what you are bitching about! You look like a dumbass liberal when you do that!

 

[the watcher]

Another way that would work is to sell voting tickets like lottery tickets, at $5 apiece. You could buy as many as you want, and each ticket would be one vote, to be tallied at the end of the "election". For $25 you could get an electoral congress vote, again, as many as you want. It would raise the federal revenue and is similar to the campaign finance system we have now. If you don't buy a ticket you would have no vote.

 

[task0778]

life is alive, is it not? Things change all the time.

This is a totally irrelevant and BS answer. IOW, you are trolling. If that is your intent, congrats.

 

[initforme]

If only the wealthy got to vote this nation wouldn't last 3 years
They know nothing more than unhealthy people do about running a nation.

 

[Paradoxical#1]

If people are dependent on taxpayers, they shouldn't have the right to vote themselves more money from the taxpayers' pockets.

How to spend tax money should be made by those with skin in the game and paying it, not by people who are only taking from it.

The way the Dems are scrambling for votes, they will soon demand that Muslims in Iran should be able to vote in all of our elections by email.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

This is a totally irrelevant and BS answer. IOW, you are trolling. If that is your intent, congrats.

You think so, I don't.

 

[initforme]

The way the Dems are scrambling for votes, they will soon demand that Muslims in Iran should be able to vote in all of our elections by email.

Yes the democrats are the only bad actors out there as the Republicans are surely godly and righteous. I'm laughing so hard I can't type. I could go on type all the faults of both platforms for centuries.

 

[Paradoxical#1]

Yes the democrats are the only bad actors out there as the Republicans are surely godly and righteous. I'm laughing so hard I can't type. I could go on type all the faults of both platforms for centuries.

You folks are against people proving they are citizens to vote while in favor of bringing in any third worlder gang-banging criminal you can.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Trump paid no taxes in 2020 and only $750 in 2016 and 2017, and I am pretty sure, he voted for himself.

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[Lisa558]

If only the wealthy got to vote this nation wouldn't last 3 years
They know nothing more than unhealthy people do about running a nation.

Nobody said only the wealthy. We’re saying that only people who pay federal income taxes should get a say in how those dollars are spent.

People renting an apartment, and earning $40,000 a year at their working class job, pay income tax.

 

[postman]

Yes the democrats are the only bad actors out there as the Republicans are surely godly and righteous. I'm laughing so hard I can't type. I could go on type all the faults of both platforms for centuries.

It's still a historical fact. That republican Ronald Reagan was the only president to give amnesty to illegal aliens, leading to their ability to become citizens and vote

The only one.... EVER .....