And water is wet.
Um, it’s unfair that I have to pay a capital gains tax at all, sweetie.
It’s for private equity, Sweetie. NEXT!
Disagree. If you earn $1 a year I think you should be paying something in taxes, possibly getting it back (less interest), but you should have skin in the game.
Why? You didn’t do any work to get that capital gain, you just bet on the right horse in the market. A $5k capital gain is just like winning $5k at the track, and should be taxed the same way.
You didn’t do any work to get that capital gain
Exactly! If I didn’t do any work, I shouldn’t pay any tax. It’s simple, really.
A $5k capital gain is just like winning $5k at the track
As an avid gambler, I don’t think gambling should be taxed either.
At least you’re honest
I feel like they’re being facetious, but it’s getting harder to tell these days.
They live in Texas, so it’s anyone’s guess — from what I’ve gathered they’re well off, if that changes your opinion.
It makes me assume they are an asshole and likely need to be slapped.
We’re as before I just thought they were a troll.
And that’s news?
I’m old enough to remember spotting Michael Jackson’s first album in an obscure record store in SF and wondering if this guy was any good, and I’ve always knows rich people pay less taxes than working stiffs. In fact, I’m almost certain that’s where the idiom to get stiffed comes from.
I also don’t remember a time when I haven’t thought the next time I come across a rich prick, if he’s enough of a prick, I might just slit his throat for the sheer satisfaction of doing it.
i swear these headlines and supposed “studies” are getting dumber and dumber.
To be fair, the research paper wasn’t asking “who pays less”, it was asking “what are the exact amounts paid”. The news headline then had to dumb it down to “billionaires pay less”.
time to collectively stop paying taxes
you’re still paying taxes?
The US Reich gutted the IRS, why would anyone pay taxes now?
i pay 21% on average, but i am a tax expert.
It’s extra fun to contemplate the fact that billionaires also do not work.
In fact. Us poors will make more money for people that are already wealthy than we will ever for ourselves.
No shit
News just in, bear shits in woods.
Not for much longer.
Won’t be too many bears left…
This is literally the entire proposal of Trickle-Down Reganomics we adopted in the 80s. It’s not some unintended end result, it’s the conscious decision that was made.
