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"Pay their fair share" 3% of us are floating 50% of the population. How much more "fair" can we get?
by zxcvvcxz 8y ago
"Pay their fair share"
3% of us are floating 50% of the population. How much more "fair" can we get?
- chrisbennet 8y ago”When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'” -Don Marquis
- refurb 8y ago“When a topic is complex, offering quotes adds little to the conversation” - Anonymous
- jjaredsimpson 8y agoSentences lose meaning over time?
- neom 8y agoTrue, Don Marquis will lose meaning after reparations.
- droopybuns 8y ago“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit” - Somerset Maugham
- tomarr 8y agoNothing stopping you moving to a low tax environment and conducting all your business there if you think this is 'unfair'. The concept of fair is alien with civilisation and taxation; society/economy/governments services are all intrinsically linked.
- coldtea 8y agoActually the concept of fair is entirely inherent in civilization. Nature doesn't care for "fair". It's precisely within a civilization that you can deem a taxation scheme as fair or not.
- ummonk 8y agoWait, you’re in support of the common practice of wealthy going to tax havens?
- kbenson 8y agoI think they are in support of the uncommon practice of the wealthy living in those tax havens.
- XorNot 8y agoThe fact the US allows their money to go while they stay in the US is the point of contention. If rich people want to actually leave then that's fully their right to so, but mysteriously that doesn't happen very much...
- bluedevil2k 8y ago47% of the population doesn’t pay any federal income tax at all (Mitt Romney’s famous quote from the 2012 election). How can they justify demanding the rich “pay their fair share”?
- muzz 8y agoJared Kushner also doesn't pay any federal income tax. Is he not rich?