• RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com
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    24 hours ago

    How the the story of the nurses who pay more tax than Bezos didn’t result in a landslide for progressives, I’ll never understand.

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      22 hours ago

      More as a percentage* than nurses.

      That’s one of the arguments my dad makes too, depending on the source he pays like 1-2% in taxes on a given year which was over a billion dollars last year.

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          9 hours ago

          And at one point it was pretty close to that in many parts of the West. For as much as American conservatives want to go back to the 50s socially, they don’t seem keen on bringing back the fiscal policies of the time…