Saw this on my IG is this true or **** propaganda

[havoc00]

[bfdehewdbyywhn]

not completely wrong

[havoc00]

not completely wrong

how can we balance it so its not ful commy but still realistic

[Misc420Doctor]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pew...cades/%3famp=1

Propaganda but wages have stagnated for 40 years anyways. This is a real problem for the average American.

[bfdehewdbyywhn]

how can we balance it so its not ful commy but still realistic

tax the top 1% but don’t increase wages or unemployment compensation for the lower class. Rewarding lazy people never works

[Hector002]

Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, should all pay more taxes.

[5tfihsmgidarap]

how can we balance it so its not ful commy but still realistic

What exactly is the issue that needs to be balanced

[havoc00]

Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, should all pay more taxes.

but they create all the jobs they would go broke if they offered more

[GTLpilotbrah]

Why is he comparing apples to oranges? Wouldn't it make more sense to compare the average american wage today with the top 1% net worth 47 years ago vs the top 1% net worth today? And why 47 years ago? Sounds like aids cherry picking to me unless someone can show me real non click bait stats.

[RealAesthetic]

Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, should all pay more taxes.

those 3 combined could buy an entire developed country and still be rich

[Hector002]

but they create all the jobs they would go broke if they offered more

I'm not saying tax all their money but it wouldn't affect them to pay 1-3 Billion a year in taxes.

[havoc00]

It's almost like flooding the country will low skill workers devalues the working class...

[DarthCholo]

Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, should all pay more taxes.

Last time I checked they did pay more personal taxes than all of us in the misc put together. Millions more every time they sell stock via capital gains taxes. The billions that people plaster in magazine headlines is not cash in the bank, it's all tied up in stock.

[havoc00]

Last time I checked they did pay more personal taxes than all of us in the misc put together. Millions more every time they sell stock via capital gains taxes. The billions that people plaster in magazine headlines is not cash in the bank, it's all tied up in stock.

and yet they dictate whatever and control all of wealth and are still pure scum

[Devils]

Cool, the obvious solution is to let in millions more immigrants, give amnesty to illegals and employ based on skin color instead of merit.

[DarthCholo]

and yet they dictate whatever and control all of wealth and are still pure scum

Is this about taxes or what? Bezos sold 10 billion worth of stock in 2020. At A capital gains tax rate if 20% It's well over 1 billion in taxes. Nobody has copies of his tax returns but I'm sure it's offset by tens of millions of charitable donations that emoloy hundreds if not thousands of people too.

[Ephedra]

Someone explain how taxing the wealthy more (even though they already pay the highest % tax rate) helps you personally.

Wealth envy is a hell of a drug.

How about we stop importing 10s of millions of low income peasants from chit hole countries that reduce wage averages drastically.

[DarthCholo]

Someone explain how taxing the wealthy more (even though they already pay the highest % tax rate) helps you personally.

Wealth envy is a hell of a drug.

How about we stop importing 10s of millions of low income peasants from chit hole countries that reduce wage averages drastically.

That's all it is.

In 2017, the top 1 percent of taxpayers accounted for more income taxes paid than the bottom 90 percent combined. The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid roughly $616 billion, or 38.5 percent of all income taxes, while the bottom 90 percent paid about $479 billion, or 29.9 percent of all income taxes.

[DarthCholo]

That's all it is.

In 2017, the top 1 percent of taxpayers accounted for more income taxes paid than the bottom 90 percent combined. The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid roughly $616 billion, or 38.5 percent of all income taxes, while the bottom 90 percent paid about $479 billion, or 29.9 percent of all income taxes.

Here's a nice visual from 2015

Billionaires are an easy scapegoat and target because nobody feels sorry for them.

[TomWanks]

lol @ defining poverty by wage alone with no acknowledgement or consideration of CPI.

BRB I'm a poor American with a car, an iPhone, a tablet, a laptop, a 50" TV, the world's reserve currency that lets me spend money in almost any country at twice if not thrice the rate of my own, and three credit cards.

Strong understanding of the reality of global poverty.

lol @ sanderscels srs.

[dankydank]

I don’t care at this point. All billionaires are Great Reseters who fund Dems. I would be completely fine with siezing Gates, Zuckerburg, and Bezo assets.

[Blasting]

Notice how he said the average worker is making $30 less per week factoring in inflation

And then compares that figure to the net worth of the top 1%

Why not compare both net worths? How much more net worth does the average worker have in 2020 relative to 47 years ago?


Would he use the same statistics (salary relative to inflation) if he got the minimum wage increase he always preaches?

[ShakeBrah]

$30 a week!? Oh fukin no!!!!

[John Promise]

If the hourlies don't like their pay, they should unionize and fight for "equitable pay" like the generations before them instead of expecting everything to be handed to them.

[mcdojo]

wealth tax is double taxation. granted there are already forms of tax similar like land, but its bullchit.

[John Promise]

Bernie is only complaining about this because he wants their money for what he thinks it should be spent in. Thing is the billionaires don't have the kind of money he wants to spend. When they're broke, he'll move on to the millionaires. Then everyone making over 100k. Eventually, the entire middle class will be shamed into paying a 90% tax rate.

[Jandels]

Why is he comparing apples to oranges? Wouldn't it make more sense to compare the average american wage today with the top 1% net worth 47 years ago vs the top 1% net worth today? And why 47 years ago? Sounds like aids cherry picking to me unless someone can show me real non click bait stats.

Your right brah, why wouldnt he compare apples with apples?

They have nothing to hide..

Do they?

[backinbusiness]

Your right brah, why wouldnt he compare apples with apples?

They have nothing to hide..

Do they?

Remember when Bernie used to say “millionaires”

Then it came out HE was a millionaire with multiple homes...he switched to BILLIOnaires only.

Rules for thee and rules for me.

[ilovetradies]

lol at the retards who think we shouldn't tax billionaires more

[Amp30]

Remember when Bernie used to say “millionaires”

Then it came out HE was a millionaire with multiple homes...he switched to BILLIOnaires only.

Rules for thee and rules for me.

There are a lot of champagne socialists out there who don't live by what they preach, just like that ******* Hasan Piker