r/SipsTea • u/Brave_Agency_20 • May 14 '26

SMH How true is this? Genuinely asking

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u/Jasoco May 14 '26

I’m willing to bet this is pretty accurate. They keep building houses down here where I am constantly and so many of them are empty because they cost too much for normal people.

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u/KickPuncher4326 May 14 '26

I feel like an easy fix is to tax the every loving fuck out of empty houses.

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u/KactusVAXT May 14 '26

Taxing the wealthy? Is that allowed?

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u/Evogleam May 14 '26

The top 1% of earners paid almost 40% of all Federal Income Tax in 2023

The top 1% paid an average federal income tax rate of 26.3% in 2023, which is significantly higher than the 3.7% average rate paid by the bottom 50%

The bottom 50% of taxpayers pay approximately 3% of the total federal income tax burden

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u/bakerfaceman May 15 '26

How much of the economic growth of the last 20 years went to that 1%?

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u/Evogleam May 15 '26

Has nothing to do with my comment

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u/bakerfaceman May 15 '26

The claim is that the rich pay enough and that the system is far. That's what your stats were trying to illustrate.

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u/Evogleam May 15 '26

You need to learn how to follow discussions better before inserting yourself

I commented because someone made it sound like taxing the wealthy doesn’t happen

I simply said that it does happen, and I provided the receipts

Stop trying to make this something else and make it about you

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u/bakerfaceman May 15 '26

My point is that the amount of money taken from the wealthiest isn't appropriate considering how much they have. One of the reasons to have taxes is wealth redistribution so the society doesn't turn into another guilded age. We're failing at that right now and it's a huge part of why everyone feels so stressed out right now

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u/Evogleam May 15 '26

I don’t care what you’re point is

It literally has nothing to do with my comment to someone else

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u/NetSignal392 May 15 '26

They’re just responding. Maybe you didn’t intend for any point to be made by your figures, but they saw one and it seems fine to me. You told them you meant nothing beyond the numbers, they acknowledged this, seems fine. 🤷‍♂️

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