• hector@lemmy.today
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    5 hours ago

    I don’t get any abatements or lower rates. I think the wealthy should pay a higher rate in some circumstances. If they aren’t paying federal taxes we should make them pay more for local taxes. Every time they are taxed they threaten to leave, or not invest, and it’s all bullshit.

    If they do leave, that’s the best case scenario, nothing good comes from billionaires. Nothing good comes from half billionaires either, 100 millionaires, they are all a drain on society. Both in making their money, and in not paying taxes and contributing to the society they live in, then in perverting our governments, and actually getting tax dollars. We end up paying them, in tax breaks for their business, to say nothing of the bail outs both the last times we had a recession.