With wealth inequality and billionaire control over American society growing ever more obscene, it’s well past time to implement a maximum wage limit.

  • nibble4bits@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    They already play a shell game with wages, so they don’t pay income taxes. Most of the really rich and successful people have their incomes derived from capital gains and then use the talking point that it’s already money that was taxed through their business so it shouldn’t be taxed further.

    TAX CAPITAL GAINS.

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      We do tax capital gains. It’s just at a lower rate than regular income and the first $50k or so is 0%. Some states tax capital gains as regular income.

      They do a shell game by using their losses to offset their gains.

      This would be something anyone could do but most people don’t have the ability to let stocks sit for over a year before taking the capitol loss strategically.

      The system is built for the wealthy to have less risk.