14 Jun 2025 5:04 am
jerrab » 13 Jun 2025, 1:08 pm » wrote: ↑ https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/st ... air-share/
According to a 2021 White House study, the wealthiest 400 billionaire families in the U.S. paid an average federal individual tax rate of just 8.2 percent. For comparison, the average American taxpayer in the same year paid 13 percent.
According to leaked tax returns highlighted in a ProPublica investigation, the 25 richest Americans paid $13.6 billion in taxes from 2014-2018—a “true” tax rate of just 3.4 percent on $401 billion of income.
Everyone should pay the same dollar amount...period. If I were king we would divide the national debt by the number of people who should be paying taxes, send out bills and start collection procedures. If you don't pay you give up benefits.
They don't ask how much you earn when you buy groceries or a car, do they? It costs what it costs. People need to start voting for a government that they can afford. You do that by making them pay their share. Too may people are paying nothing or next to nothing and while voting for more free stuff.