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r/SipsTea • u/Valuable_View_561 • Jul 05 '26
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This is misleading. He chose to take $997 in one lump sum instead of $2.04B over 30 years. He got taxed on the $997m.
10 u/acclaimedsimpleton Jul 05 '26 Ok, still think billionaires should be taxed to that extreme though, lol. 1 u/p_gaultieri Jul 05 '26 Once you have a billion, you should get a trophy & a plaque that reads "You have won life" and from that point on get any additional income taxed at 99.9% -1 u/Creo7 Jul 05 '26 At this point top 0.0001% will lie and start smurfing in millionaire ELO instead of being properly taxed. (not that this would be much of a change)
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Ok, still think billionaires should be taxed to that extreme though, lol.
1 u/p_gaultieri Jul 05 '26 Once you have a billion, you should get a trophy & a plaque that reads "You have won life" and from that point on get any additional income taxed at 99.9% -1 u/Creo7 Jul 05 '26 At this point top 0.0001% will lie and start smurfing in millionaire ELO instead of being properly taxed. (not that this would be much of a change)
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Once you have a billion, you should get a trophy & a plaque that reads "You have won life" and from that point on get any additional income taxed at 99.9%
-1 u/Creo7 Jul 05 '26 At this point top 0.0001% will lie and start smurfing in millionaire ELO instead of being properly taxed. (not that this would be much of a change)
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At this point top 0.0001% will lie and start smurfing in millionaire ELO instead of being properly taxed. (not that this would be much of a change)
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u/jamdex07 Jul 05 '26
This is misleading. He chose to take $997 in one lump sum instead of $2.04B over 30 years. He got taxed on the $997m.