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And he'll still be a billionaire after that.
Imagine another headline for the same facts:
"Google cofounder so rich he could afford to pay $13 billion in taxes"
I remember when I wanted to work for Google.
Don't be evil
God I fucking hate the rich. He's spending thousands of times my yearly pay just to avoid paying less in taxes than I do
Pay your taxes, you fucking parasite.
Financial obesity is neurotoxic, an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
Even hundred millionaires and multi-tens millionaires have too much. 10 million is more than enough for you and your children to never have to work and live a comfortable life.
Even that is too high if everyone else on the planet does not have enough for basic necessities after an honest day’s work.
My YTD return on my 401k is 16%. If a billionaire can't make 5% they're not much of a billionaire.
Bring back pre-Reagan tax rates on the rich.
Those 1950s glory days that Republicans keep harkening back to involved Ike, a Republican president, taxing the [very] wealthy ~~like 52% (fake viral posts say 90%).~~ at a rate of around 90%.
EDIT: Corrected based off of comments. The 52% rates seem to be more common among the "wealthy" at the time, but in comparison to billionaires today, the 90% rate would be more accurate. The "fake viral posts" is in reference to memes that make it sound like every person who counted as "wealthy" were taxed at 90%. I realize I could have written all of that more clearly.
Is it fake viral posts, or just people not understanding how marginal tax rates work or how they differ from your effective tax rate again? The highest tax rate did cross over 90% at the tail end of WWII, but very few people actually had to pay taxes at that rate, and even then, their effective tax rate would have been much lower.
Edit: Just to illustrate, this site has historical tax rates for the period in question. For the sake of simplifying then math, I'm doing this assuming you only paid 3% income tax on income up to $100,000/year, and 94% on earnings above that with the surtax. Source for the income numbers is straight out of my ass, but it doesn't really matter, as it's only to illustrate the point. So, say that year, you managed to make $110,000. You would pay 3% on your first $100,000 in taxable income, and 94% on the remaining $10,000 you earned above that, making your effective rate 11.27% across your whole income, with a tax liability of $12,400. You can have both lower effective tax rates and higher marginal tax rates for your highest earners without either one negating the truth of the other.
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/i1040--1955.pdf
1955 top income tax bracket is 91% for single income over $200k ($2.5M today). IDK what's fake about that, except if you don't understand the concept of bracketing taxes.
It's just 5% of his wealth. Most people give anything from 20% to 50% of their annual income to taxes and will pay income taxes on all their retirement savings when they pull it.
I’d gladly pay 5% of my total wealth once in lieu of taxes. It’d amount to about $50. Granted all of society would grind to a fucking half if us workers weren’t paying taxes because the other leeches fucking aren’t.
i'd be willing to bet that goog has declined 5% or more in a single day more than 50 times since IPO.
Another rich tax cheat parasite like Zuckerberg and Musk.
That have so much wealth that they wouldn't even notice and it would help with finding that were cut by Big Billionaire Bill. Including social net.
But yeah, fuck us, fuck our children and grandchildren.
If your are in California, please vote yes on prop 40, and vote NO on prop 41 and 42 (Trojan horses placed by Sergey that would block prop 40 even if it passes)
We need to make readily available MANPAD blueprints using easily obtained materials.
There is no private jet that shouldn't be shot out of the sky. You don't need billions to make rich people live in fear. You just need labor.
Me when capitalists try to make me work: fuck you; pay me.
Me when I have to work to end capitalism: oh boy, here I go again!
Time for some research on MANPADs.
I wish I could pay that much in taxes
They don't want to pay because most net worth over a couple hundred million is straight up made up. He couldn't get 13billion liquid if he tried nor could most billionaires.
Exactly. Because that money does not actually exist anywhere other than in their imaginations.
Still, fuck ‘em. Just like they’ve been fucking the rest of us for decades.
I wonder if he's tried not ordering avocado toast and making coffee at home
Sounds like a skill issue to me.
There is plenty of millionaires that want to be taxed more, billionaire wealth hoarders are psychopaths though
Plenty will say whatever is popular, then donate to candidates who do the exact opposite.
Millionaires aren’t really contributing, it would cost them more than what it’s worth, unless you are working towards billionaire level wealth
Millionaires aren’t really contributing
The multimillionaire used car dealer, the retired middle manager, and the seventh generation family money failson make up the backbone of the party going back to the Hoover Era.
I know some public schools (about 10 thousand) that could use a piece of that $13 billion, if we can manage not to waste it on the popo
Unfortunately, based on the polling, it sounds like it's been working. Fuck this stupid wealth worshipping culture.
The math is always easy on these things - the millions paid to fight progress is always a fraction of what they expect to lose if it passes, making it simple to know why they oppose these changes instead of the nonsense propaganda they spread.
Welfare Queen
That 5% return on 260. He’ll never know it’s gone.
A billion here. A billion there. Pretty soon, you're talking about a lot of money.
The dirty truth is that it's far cheaper to bribe officials not to tax you then it is to pay taxes.
It's California. He won't lose while Gavin Newsom and his friends are in power.
It's easy to tell who government serves; The rulers are the ones paying the least taxes.
You can tell when our government "sold out"; it's when taxes were cut severely (for billionaires) way back in the 80s by Reagan and Republican party
You can tell the Democrats are in on it because they never restore those taxes (which they could do whenever they'd like).
Sick of paying taxes? Give away all you money.
should make the tax every year. not just 1 yr
I really need to read Marx, don't I? I need some easy methods on reading and studying theory.
This is why there should be no billionaires.
let's make him own 1300 Billion.
13 / 0.05 = 260
He has $260 Billion?!
Yeah, spread that around. He wasn't doing more than playing around with Google Glass 10 years ago, coming up with Google (and then doing his best to sabotage it) isn't worth that by a long shot.
Probably tax deductions too.
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