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To: Lane3 who wrote (15829)4/22/2017 5:48:31 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 365120
 
"If we tax $1B at,, say, 35%, we yield 350M towards some welfare program. There is no rate at which we could yield that much tax money from an income of only $100M"

Oh, I dunno. Let's say "some program", cuz $ could go for infrastructure or the ever-popular "more bombs", but taxing 11 new hundredmillionaires beats taxing 1 billionaire.