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jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts) Fri Jan 11, 2019, 04:07 PM Jan 2019

you'd have to work for 200 years before hitting the cap at which $10,000,000 is taxed at 70%.

Jules Suzdaltsev
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The average US salary is $50,000, which means you’d have to work for 200 years before hitting the cap at which $10,000,000 is taxed at 70%.

And yet somehow Republicans have convinced their constituents that this applies to them and they should oppose it.

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you'd have to work for 200 years before hitting the cap at which $10,000,000 is taxed at 70%. (Original Post) jodymarie aimee Jan 2019 OP

it's one of the points where I acknowledge how good their 'con' is RT Atlanta Jan 2019 #1

Yeah flotsam Jan 2019 #2

well, given my current savings prospects, if medical science extends the human lifespan, I will anarch Jan 2019 #3

I'm gonna need a couple extra decades. Codeine Jan 2019 #4

RT Atlanta

(2,517 posts)

1. it's one of the points where I acknowledge how good their 'con' is

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2019, 04:11 PM

Jan 2019

to have convinced so many ordinary people to vote against their own personal interests in the REALLY SLIM chance that they too could one day be 'rich' like them and not wanting to be taxed as such a rate.

it's amazing.

flotsam

(3,268 posts)

2. Yeah

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2019, 04:34 PM

Jan 2019

But only if you illegally avoided paying taxes for the first 200 years.

anarch

(6,535 posts)

3. well, given my current savings prospects, if medical science extends the human lifespan, I will

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2019, 04:45 PM

Jan 2019

But yeah I guess the average person thinks, you know, once I get my billions of $$$, "it's mine and nobody else can have any"

^^^ the American Dream

Codeine

(25,586 posts)

4. I'm gonna need a couple extra decades.

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2019, 04:53 PM

Jan 2019

Actually I just got a promotion so not true, but 50gs seemed like an illusion for most of my life. I imagine quite a few people share that perspective.

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