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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by ehnto on Sunday August 31, 2025 @02:01AM (#45080728)
I am wondering why "very wealthy" would be so stressed by increased taxes. Don't they have ludicrous wealth, shouldn't it have almost no material impact for them?

Are there money games I am unaware of that means they are running brittle houses of cards and marginal percentage increases in taxes would topple their empires?

I just don't understand the fear or concern, but I am not ludicrously wealthy so I suppose I wouldn't.

If someone is truly strong then they have strength to spare for others. I guess I assume the same would be true of wealth, but perhaps you don't get ludicrously wealthy by being proportionally generous.

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by ambicapter on Sunday August 31, 2025 @10:42AM (#45083508)
They are so ludicrously wealthy that even a very small increase in percentage points of tax ends up being a very large number, and no one likes to see a very large number of their “hard-earned” dollars get “taken away”. The marginal value of each dollar to them I don’t think is a calculation that is very accessible to our emotional human minds.
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