Re:Why American cities are broke (2021) [video]
by giraffe_lady on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @10:14AM
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No one who pays "almost nothing in taxes" enjoys huge amounts of anything. Except maybe the actual rich with their tax avoidance games, but actual poverty fucking sucks and whatever meager benefits you manage to access don't change that.
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Re:Why American cities are broke (2021) [video]
by honkdaddy on Thursday August 18, 2022 @03:44PM
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The people we call rich pay the majority of taxes.
>In 2019, the top 1 percent of taxpayers accounted for more income taxes paid than the bottom 90 percent combined. The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid $612 billion in income taxes while the bottom 90 percent paid $461 billion in income taxes. [1]
You're right though, poverty does absolutely suck and realistically nobody's 'enjoying' EBT or assisted housing or whatever benefit they receive. The point I was trying to make is that poor people shouldn't feel badly for contributing less to the pie any more than 1%ers should feel righteous for contributing more.
[1] https://taxfoundation.org/publications/latest-federal-income...