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> I think you mean funded by the tax payer, rich and poor alike The rich pay disproportionately a lot more. Most technology is funded by the rich either direct
by malandrew 6y ago
> I think you mean funded by the tax payer, rich and poor alike
The rich pay disproportionately a lot more. Most technology is funded by the rich either directly or through the majority of the taxes they pay.
97% of taxes are paid by the top 50%.
- celticninja 6y ago>The rich pay disproportionately a lot more. And so they should. the top 50% has a lower band of $41k annual income in the US. they are not rich, in many places they would struggle to support a family on that. >The top 1 percent of American earners pay almost 40 percent of all federal income taxes. That’s more than the bottom 90 percent pay combined that fact should not be celebrated as how generous the top 1% are but rather how unequal the system is that this can be the case.
- malandrew 6y agoI'm not arguing that they should or should not. I'm just pointing out that the people that are vilified are contributing a LOT more to keeping this ship we call a country afloat.