• dXq9dwg4zt
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    2 年前

    I find it interesting that politicians never seem to make this argument about taxes.

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      2 年前

      Oh they did, but for rich people. Rich people, titans of industry, incredibly smart and deserve every penny they’ve ripped from a dead workers hand. But also too dum to do taxie waxies.

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        That’s the exact opposite of the situation. The tax code is so outrageously complicated and obtuse that only the rich can afford the sort of accounting to take advantage of it.

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          That’s the narrative they want you to believe, but the reality is that the richest people don’t properly pay their taxes, if at all. The top 1% illegally fails to pay an estimated $163 billion every single year. Nothing is simpler than just ignoring the complicated tax code that fucks the rest of Americans every year.