Students in Massachusetts will get free lunch and breakfast at school thanks to a new 4% tax put on people who earn more than $1 million.

  • AnonTwo
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    -131 year ago

    I’m pretty sure at an 80% rate the millionaires would just spend the rate moving, out of state or out of country depending on how far reaching it was.

    • DessertStorms
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      171 year ago

      And nothing of value was lost…

      Like, oh no, what would a state do without their money hoarding exploiters that alredy contribute less than the bare minimum???
      And worse - if everyone decided to make these laws, where will the poor millionaires escape to then???

      Oh, won’t someone think of the millionaires!!!11

    • prole
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      41 year ago

      Oh look, someone else who doesn’t understand how progressive tax brackets work. Their effective tax rate wouldn’t be 80%, only income above a certain (very high) number would be taxed at 80%.

    • don
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      -131 year ago

      That’s exactly how that would go.

        • @yoyogamer
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          -21 year ago

          People found all sorts of loopholes to not pay that. Nobody paid that much taxes.

          • prole
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            31 year ago

            Nobody paid that much taxes.

            Do you have any evidence for that claim, or are you just stating it with certainty because it feels right to you?

            Nobody paid 90% of their total income because that’s not how tax brackets work.

            • @yoyogamer
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              -11 year ago

              So lemmy is just as stupidly socialist communist as reddit… got it…