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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1034902)10/23/2017 7:20:28 PM
From: Heywood40  Read Replies (1) of 1574796
 
You continue to take refuge in percentages.

Real numbers, as usual, take the shock out of the percentages.

Your numbers: "Which means that one person with 66 times more wealth is paying 238 times more taxes."

With one guy having $400, and everyone else having $6.00, look at the expenses each has for the necessities of food, clothing, shelter and health insurance.

If we allow costs for necessities to be untaxed, and they come to, say $4.50, then the guy with $6.00 should be paying taxes on about $1.50, and the guy with $400 should be paying taxes on about $396.50.

$396.50/$1.50 means the guy with $400 would rightfully be expected to pay 264 times more tax than the guy with $6.00.
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