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Re:Media Owned by Wealthy Are Quick to Tell You Wealth Taxes... by question000 on Thursday October 22, 2020 @02:39PM (#24861657)
Yeah citation needed, other then tariffs taxes have only gone down in the past 30 years...
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Re:Media Owned by Wealthy Are Quick to Tell You Wealth Taxes... by AnthonyMouse on Thursday October 22, 2020 @03:05PM (#24862011)
Federal receipts as a percentage of GDP haven't meaningfully changed since WWII. (Which means that they've only gone up in real dollars per capita, because GDP per capita has increased.)
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Re:Media Owned by Wealthy Are Quick to Tell You Wealth Taxes... by question000 on Thursday October 22, 2020 @11:23PM (#24865758)
Yeah so taxes have gone down. If you measure taxes with real metrics they've gone down to their lowest level ever.
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Re:Media Owned by Wealthy Are Quick to Tell You Wealth Taxes... by AnthonyMouse on Friday October 23, 2020 @12:56PM (#24871474)
What are you talking about? As a percentage of GDP, federal taxes have been the same since the 1940s. But real GDP per capita has increased, so real taxes per capita have increased.

And before the 1940s, federal taxes were dramatically lower.

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