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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mas.to/users/markwyner/statuses/112435998530565258">Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm: (markwyner@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 11:54:40 JST</a><a href="https://mas.to/@markwyner" title="markwyner@mas.to"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/31529-48-20250508220438.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:</a><div><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p>You may be privy to or unfamiliar with how the ultra-wealthy are taking advantage of the system. Either way, you’ll find this report by <a href="https://newsie.social/@ProPublica">@ProPublica</a> to be staggering. The facts are clear: there is a class war, and we’re losing.</p><p>“…it demolishes the cornerstone myth of the American tax system: that everyone pays their fair share and the richest Americans pay the most.”</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax</a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/ClassWar" rel="tag">#ClassWar</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/America" rel="tag">#America</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Taxes" rel="tag">#Taxes</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Billionaires" rel="tag">#Billionaires</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Capitalism" rel="tag">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Poverty" rel="tag">#Poverty</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Inequality" rel="tag">#Inequality</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/EatTheRich" rel="tag">#EatTheRich</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3087692#notice-6118477">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-05-14T11:54:40+09:00" title="Tuesday, 14-May-2024 11:54:40 JST">about a year ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mas.to/@markwyner/112435998530565258" rel="external" title="Sent from mas.to via ActivityPub">mas.to</a></span></span><a href="https://mas.to/@markwyner/112435998530565258">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2634084">A table showing the wealth growth, total income reported, and total taxes paid for Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, and Elon Musk. It concludes each row with a true tax rate denoting 0.10%, 0.98%, 1.30%, and 3.27%, respectively. The full table is available as HTML in the article at the anchor ‘charticle’.</a></label><br><a href="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/435/979/072/355/321/original/20958d179d6c5352.png" rel="external">https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/435/979/072/355/321/original/20958d179d6c5352.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm: (markwyner@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 11:54:40 JSTMark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:
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You may be privy to or unfamiliar with how the ultra-wealthy are taking advantage of the system. Either way, you’ll find this report by @ProPublica to be staggering. The facts are clear: there is a class war, and we’re losing.
“…it demolishes the cornerstone myth of the American tax system: that everyone pays their fair share and the richest Americans pay the most.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax
#ClassWar #America #Taxes #Billionaires #Capitalism #Poverty #Inequality #EatTheRich
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1. A table showing the wealth growth, total income reported, and total taxes paid for Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, and Elon Musk. It concludes each row with a true tax rate denoting 0.10%, 0.98%, 1.30%, and 3.27%, respectively. The full table is available as HTML in the article at the anchor ‘charticle’.
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