Soon-Shiong has aligned with Trump, and is openly forcing LA Times journalists to serve his interests. Usually a major newspaper owner would try to avoid the appearance of bias or of undermining the objectivity of the news.

https://www.thewrap.com/la-times-case-against-trump-kamala-e...

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/24/nx-s1-5163293/la-times-editor...

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/18/la-times-patri...

"fair share" is always defined as more than they pay now, I've noticed.

Seems like he knows his way around the financial system:

https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/politico-uncovers-more...

lol exactly

Is your opinion that extremely wealthy don't try to reduce their tax share as much as possible, either through clever accounting on their current year taxes or by influencing politicians/policies to lower their taxes directly?

Why do most middle class earners pay more than their millionaire and billionaire counterparts as a percentage? Sure you might say W2 tax rate is higher than capital gains, but why is that the case?

Of course they do, same as everyone else.

The rich pay the vast majority of taxes and get next to nothing for it.

Please explain how they get next to nothing? We have a pretty damn functional society - police, firemen, judges, law and order, a military, roads, and the ability for them to do business and get richer. Society entails that those able to provide more, so that's just part of it. We ask able bodied men to most serve on the front lines of our military, mothers most often play the role of raising our youth, we are have a role to play and in return we get live petty peacefully.

Do you have a better model?

They certainly hoard more than their "fair share" of wealth.

Nothing certain about that.

100% certain that no human deserves to be a billion times wealthier than the least wealthy human.

I don't know why you think that.

because i am a human who sees the inherent value of all humanity, divorced from their wealth. i see wealth hoarding as an addiction, a sickness, and a danger to others.

Inherit value has nothing to do with wealth, and billionaires are not hoarding.

Maybe if the city paid firefighters instead of ... well ... i wont name specific programs due to the politically charged nature of it but let's just say there is a lot of fluff that could be cut...