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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you cite where I said anything about inheritance ? I just have missed that.

Your strawman arguments are silly.

I understand politics well. Thank you for the needless ad hominem while you babble about billionaires and clearly don’t understand wealth.

You don’t realize for most of them, it’s ownership in a company they created. So it is their hard work paying off.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can you cite where I said anything about inheritance ? I just have missed that.

The end of the estate tax is brought to us by voters like you. I didn't say you mentioned it. You just voted for it. Something you likely do a lot of: voting for shit you don't understand.

I understand politics well.

Yep, that's why you pulled out a publicity stunt bill announcement to defend an insurrectionist supporter. Because your understanding of politics is oh so keen.

you babble about billionaires and clearly don’t understand wealth.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/buy-borrow-die-rich-avoid-140004536.html

Income taxes have also fallen over time for the top earners...and that's the people that are being honest about how much money they're making yearly.

In addition, as far as the wealth category, long-term capital gains have the lowest federal tax rates of any type of income.

You don’t realize for most of them, it’s ownership in a company they created. So it is their hard work paying off.

Lol

I'll just start with a counter example of the richest blabber bullshit boy as of late: Elon Musk. Dude's companies are basically two government subsidies stacked on top of each other in a trench coat. Yep. He totally earned his wealth. 👍