Rich people don’t do shit except collect the rents of being the owners of the wealth of our society.
Or at best happen to position themselves as the owners of an idea whose time has come. But even in that case, it’s the workers and the timing and placement in the market that make them rich. They just happened to be in the right place at the right time, and were skilled at conning people.
Ok and? The purpose of taxes is, in part, to redistribute wealth from where it went to where it should have gone in the first place if the rich weren’t swindling us all. It doesn’t work as well as it should but it’s a start.
Rich people don’t do shit except collect the rents of being the owners of the wealth of our society.
Or at best happen to position themselves as the owners of an idea whose time has come. But even in that case, it’s the workers and the timing and placement in the market that make them rich. They just happened to be in the right place at the right time, and were skilled at conning people.
The top 1% of earners in the US pays 38.4% of all income tax and the top 10% paid 70.5% of it. The bottom 50% paid 3.3%. These are from 2023.
Ok and? The purpose of taxes is, in part, to redistribute wealth from where it went to where it should have gone in the first place if the rich weren’t swindling us all. It doesn’t work as well as it should but it’s a start.
Those numbers should be more like 100% imo.
I’m simply countering your claim that rich people do nothing but collect rent. They in-fact fund almost everything that’s paid with tax-payer money.
This is like crediting thrives because a portion of their income is recovered by the police and returned to their victims. No. Just no.