Jack has some thoughts on the rich and taxes.
ProPublica has revealed that the richest Americans are making gigantic profits but only paying fractions in taxes to the American economic pie. On the staggering $400 billion in wealth held by the top 25 richest Americans from 2014-2018, only $13 billion was paid in taxes, even as "economists" who fretter and worry over every cent given to unemployed workers also shrieked that these richies were paying "too much."
It turns out that 3.4% is the "too high" rate that the rich have been crying a river over having to pay. Guess what? 3.4% is not "too high" by any definition, and negotiations (I'm being nice here with the "negotiations") should begin immediately for greater aid for the unemployed and better benefits for all workers based on higher taxes on the rich, who have been lying all along about "how much" they pay.
Names like Musk, Bezos, Buffet and Bloomberg are all up in there among the "top 25" who pay essentially spare change in return to the public that labors under them and creates their wealth. These would be the same people who, along with every American Chamber of Commerce, would sooner the country be invaded by illegal aliens to strengthen an underground economy than to pay American workers a guaranteed liveable wage with basic health care. So there can be no surprise.
While many of us had long known all this simply by instinct, hard evidence was lacking until someone in the government leaked all the info on the richies' taxes. To which Democrat and Republican political servants of the rich alike now shriek: "Off with their heads!" Yes, the hunt is underway to find the vile spewer of the truth who had the nerve to tell Americans just how massively the rich are luxuriating off of their labor without giving back any appreciable amount.
If that person is found and an attempt is made to prosecute them, American workers should rise up in a REAL rebellion in their defense until they are left alone. And I will leave the rich with a little something that Someone said about them 2000 years ago: "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God."
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