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Re:ProPublica's tax story by md_ on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @01:39AM (#27444581)
Why? Calculating the tax rate as “taxes paid” / “net wealth” is just what the effective wealth tax would be if one existed. This is consistent with advocating for a wealth tax, which, as I noted elsewhere, does in fact exist in other OECD countries than the US.
Re:ProPublica's tax story by fshbbdssbbgdd on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @02:11AM (#27444755)
Wealth taxes use wealth as the denominator. Propublica uses change in wealth as the denominator.
Re:ProPublica's tax story by md_ on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @12:56PM (#27450239)
True. I find the denominator chosen to be weird.