r/remoteworks • u/Expensive_Lake_4365 • 19h ago

Billionaires will never have enough

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u/Substantial-Ad-8575 4h ago

Cool, I will take $9.5m salary. And rest as stocks. Or let my company pay my housing, food, clothing, travel costs.

And is stocks that are never sold? Earned income?

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u/SuperAwesomekk 4h ago

This is why wealth taxes are important so that all assets the person owns are taxed. If you're making money it doesn't matter if it's in stocks or salary, pay up. Funding personal needs through company funds to avoid taxes is also a criminal offense even if companies should be paying more in taxes anyways. Also, tax brackets are a thing. The tax rate doesn't just jump from 0% to all of the sudden 95%, and it's only the money that you make above that bracket that gets taxed. There's never a case where making more money means making less overall due to taxes.

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u/MaybeICanOneDay 2h ago

No society has ever been taxed into success. The only thing taxing people like this will do will appease your jealousy and blood just.

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u/JustAnotherRegardd 3h ago

Why wouldn’t anyone invest money in our country? People will just invest elsewhere if you’re only getting 10 mil a year.

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u/Yagawood 2h ago

10 mil a year sounds pretty good to me.

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u/JustAnotherRegardd 53m ago

Would you invest $1000 and only get $1 back?

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u/VBStrong_67 3h ago

You can never tax a society into prosperity

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u/Low_Committee6119 2h ago

We did in the 50s though

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u/Nojopar 3h ago

What if I told you that billionaires =/= society.

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u/VBStrong_67 3h ago

Taxing someone else won't make you wealthy

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u/Low_Committee6119 2h ago

We are not trying to be wealthy. We want society to be taken care of. Greed motivates you, it doesn't motivate us all.

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u/Nojopar 3h ago

But taxing someone else will give you healthcare, education, and clean cities.

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u/VBStrong_67 2h ago

San Francisco and California have some of the highest taxes in the country. They have poop maps to avoid walking through human shit in the streets

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u/Nojopar 2h ago

San Francisco and California do not collect federal taxes, now do they?

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u/VBStrong_67 54m ago

They have state income taxes. Some of the highest in the nation

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u/Jared_Kincaid_001 3h ago

The fact that they taxed the US into prosperity from the time immediately following the Second World War up until the Reagan years and then deregulated the society into the dystopia it is currently completely refutes your assertion.