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.

  • Flying Squid
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    111 year ago

    Definitely think it should be higher for such wildly high income.

    Higher, nothing. There should be a rate above which it’s taxed at 100%. No one needs to be as rich as Musk or Zuckerberg or Bezos.

    • @yoyogamer
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      -21 year ago

      And yet you guys wonder why millionaires move to Texas. You increase the taxes above a certain number and they’ll take all their wealth, consumption and their taxes to another state.

      Taxes should be sustainable. High taxes on rich people aren’t sustainable because they’ll leave taking whatever taxes they pay and whatever consumption they do which contributes to the economy.

      • Flying Squid
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        121 year ago

        The wealth that they hoard? The consumption they import? Let me guess, they’re also “job creators.”

          • Flying Squid
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            31 year ago

            A corporation. Not a rich individual.

            • @yoyogamer
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              01 year ago

              Who do you think created these corporations? Rich people with aim to make more money.

              Capitalism pays your salary. Without capitalism and with theft of wealth via unfair taxation, your job won’t exist.

              • Flying Squid
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                21 year ago

                Rich people do not need to exist for corporations to exist. Also, you think wage theft doesn’t happen under capitalism?

                According to the Economic Policy Institute, wage theft costs U.S. workers as much as $50 billion per year — a number far higher than all robberies, burglaries and motor vehicle thefts combined.

                https://inthesetimes.com/article/wage-theft-union-labor-biden-iupat

                All right! Go capitalism!

    • @[email protected]
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      -31 year ago

      And no millioneir will keep his money in a state where those are the tax rates. If you make it too high you literally get nothing.

      • Flying Squid
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        111 year ago

        Awww. Too bad for them. What will we do without millionaires hoarding their wealth?!

        • @uberkalden
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          71 year ago

          No, he’s saying they will keep it. Just in a way that mass gets literally nothing

          • Flying Squid
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            111 year ago

            So either they will get a lot of money or things won’t be any different except millionaires won’t be there hoarding wealth?

            I’m not seeing a downside yet.

            • @[email protected]
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              91 year ago

              I think they mean the millionaires will find other ways to hoard it to avoid tax levels they won’t stomach. Fair? No. Reality? Probably.