For the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest Americans paid a lower tax rate

Re:For the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest American... by kryogen1c on Monday October 07, 2019 @04:37PM (#21185695)

Dont tariffs on imports\exports make this not true? Or is simply true enough?

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Re:For the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest American... by rsynnott on Monday October 07, 2019 @05:06PM (#21185942)

Those are also a tax; if you import a million dollars of something subject to a 10% tariff, you pay 100k to the government for the privilege.

One thing that complicates the above is that the US does tend to run a larger deficit than Canada.

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