LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed

Re:LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed by sahila on Thursday January 09, 2025 @03:12AM (#42642969)

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?

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Re:LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed by baggy_trough on Friday January 10, 2025 @03:31PM (#42659820)

Of course they do, same as everyone else.

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

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Re:LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed by sahila on Saturday January 11, 2025 @06:52PM (#42669947)

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?

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