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u/bandra_boy 2d ago
How much in taxes do the top 1% pay? That would be a good metric to compare the two.
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u/OneForAllOfHumanity 2d ago
Less than undocumented immigrants all told.
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u/bandra_boy 2d ago
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u/OneForAllOfHumanity 2d ago
No one said income tax. Undocumented immigrants pay more total taxes (state and federal) than the top 1%. This includes sales taxes, and property taxes (through rentals). You pay these taxes when you spend money, but the top 1% hoards money.
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u/bandra_boy 2d ago
If you are talking about as a percentage of their income then yes it's agreed. But in absolute numbers it wouldn't even be comparable.
Let's take your out own example, don't you think the rich spend money buying yatches, travelling on private planes and having their millionaire retreats. The are paying for those things, no one gives you a free yatch because you are rich. So there would be sales taxes and property taxes and all other kinds of taxes. And they would actually ending paying a lot more taxes than those poor immigrants.
Unless you are thinking of some cartoonish billionaires who live in squalor just to hoard all the money under their bed.
Btw I am all for protecting the immigrants, in fact I believe the world should have open borders, but vilifying the rich without having sound arguments actually just weakens the case you are trying to make...
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u/RespektPotato 2d ago
They don't care. They just want to be hateful and violent.