Re:A brief history of nobody wants to work anymore
by asdff on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @02:40AM
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How are they wrong? If you got paid $100 this week and are taxed 20% you are left with only $80 to live with and make do with. If you got paid $100,000 this week and are taxed 80% life is great because you have $20k in your pocket this week you didn't have before. Sure the rich pay a higher proportion to taxes perhaps if they aren't skirting the rules, but they make so damn much already that they could stand to be taxed even more and not see much of a shift in their lifestyles, whereas people on the bottom end of the ladder are pretty tapped out.
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Re:A brief history of nobody wants to work anymore
by rhino369 on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @04:40PM
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Because people making even 500 dollars a week essentially are only taxed for social security. Complaining about the poor being taxed too much just doesn't make sense in America. You can complain they are exploited by employers and the government doesn't protect them, etc. But high taxation? That's just not the problem.