• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    22 hours ago

    “The difference in wealth between a surgeon and a billionaire is about one billion dollars, it’s the billionaires that need to pay more taxes, they pay a smaller % than you.”

    • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com
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      20 hours ago

      How the the story of the nurses who pay more tax than Bezos didn’t result in a landslide for progressives, I’ll never understand.

      • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world
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        18 hours ago

        More as a percentage* than nurses.

        That’s one of the arguments my dad makes too, depending on the source he pays like 1-2% in taxes on a given year which was over a billion dollars last year.

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            And at one point it was pretty close to that in many parts of the West. For as much as American conservatives want to go back to the 50s socially, they don’t seem keen on bringing back the fiscal policies of the time…