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At a Republican town hall in Nebraska (slrpnk.net)
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[–] 109 points 2 years ago (14 children)

My dad (long time conservative but can't get on the trump train which is good at least) thinks that "tax the rich" means people like high end doctors and surgeons. People who are absolutely in the top 1% but like "has a nice weekend car and maybe a lake house" not people making millions of dollars per month or week (or more)

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  • [–] 112 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    "The difference in wealth between a surgeon and a billionaire is about one billion dollars, it's the billionaires that need to pay more taxes, they pay a smaller % than you."

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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    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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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Which is hilarious. That percentage should be around 40-50% if not more.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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…

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    And the people who want to go back to the 50s don't realise that the fiscal policies were what made that time great, not the social norms.

    For example, the great thing wasn't that women had to do the housework, the great thing was that you only needed one worker per household to live a good life.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago

    Your dad thinks that people earn money by working for it. In other words, he's what would be a normal person in a socialist society.

    All you have to do now is teach him what capitalism is.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    The top 1% make roughly $600k per year, or probably more significantly (as not all rich people get "income"), a net worth of $11million according to this article

    So yeah, maybe some doctors are in that category, but it's probably just the real big earners.

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