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America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90%
What is means is if you control for income, the top 1% are paying a bigger share of total income tax.
So even if they weren’t earning more, they be paying more taxes.
fuzzfactor
on Feb 14, 2021
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Even if you taxed them to the bone it wouldn't be enough so you're going to need to tax the bulk of the commerce instead of just the residuals after it falls into their relatively idle hands.
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So even if they weren’t earning more, they be paying more taxes.