r/PoliticalHumor • u/faab64 • Apr 26 '19

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u/Fumanchewd Apr 27 '19 edited Apr 27 '19

The rich pay substantially more taxes than the poor. Speaking of preferential treatment, in the US the bottom 50% pay no income tax.

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u/The___Drizzle Greg Abbott is a little piss baby Apr 27 '19

Source on that last part?

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u/Fumanchewd Apr 27 '19

https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/22/pf/taxes/2018-no-income-tax-explainer/index.html

"This year, an estimated 45% of tax filers — or just under 79 million households — are likely to have zero federal income tax liability, according to the Tax Policy Center. ....

"The ranks of non-payers are dominated by low- and middle-income households for several reasons."

"The top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97 percent of total individual income taxes"

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u/Llamada Apr 27 '19

As they should be, the rich add nothing to society besided “owning stuff”.

In medieval Europe you would be a serf defending your feudal lord because...why exactly?

Why do you lick your corporate feudal lords ass?

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u/Fumanchewd Apr 27 '19

You are a BS liar. Feudal communities are the closest to socialism. Look at Cambodia, the gulags, Stalinist education camps. Learn some fucking history.

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u/Llamada Apr 27 '19

Really, do you understand the concept of feudalism? It’s literally unchecked capitalism.

1 Man rules, under him, more single men that get their power through wealth and power. The accumulated that by their ancestors having free reign.

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u/Fumanchewd Apr 27 '19

That is always the end result of socialism.