two graphs from a Jacobin article by David Sirota*
tweet below with animated gif also in another post on inexcusable inequality*
Watch how the ultra-wealthy in America gradually raised the taxes of the poor and eventually bent the curve downward until they paid the lowest tax rate of all pic.twitter.com/ukdM84gufs
— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) May 13, 2020
2021-09-06T16:02−07* / at the about* post – at bit.ly/dateposted – anyone can link to this post from its date: September 6, 2021
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The animated GIF in the tweet above is all about taxing income. “If you’re interested in taxing wealth,” says Columbia law professor Michael Graetz, “the estate tax is the only mechanism the federal government now has.”*
/ spoiler alert: “… the estate tax is entirely avoidable.”* (Robert Lord, tax attorney)
*a link – or not; see a note on notes and links and a disclaimer / … and maybe browse or search the archive*
The animated GIF in the tweet above is all about taxing income. “If you’re interested in taxing wealth,” says Columbia law professor Michael Graetz, “the estate tax is the only mechanism the federal government now has.”*
/ spoiler alert: “… the estate tax is entirely avoidable.”* (Robert Lord, tax attorney)
NEW: “It’s a perfect case study in how the major estate tax loopholes work in tandem and how the estate tax is entirely avoidable.”
— Anders Melin (@MelinAnders) October 21, 2021
Our look at Nike billionaire Philip Knight.
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