• Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    Sure but you take 3% out of my $10 and I have $9.70.

    But take 15% out of your $100 and you still have $85.

    They can pay their taxes.

    • MrNobody@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 hours ago

      Thats false equivalency. Billions is the larger number and since a billion is 1000x a million, it would be 3% of their $10000 and 15% of your $10. So its their $300 tax vs your $1.50 tax. Sure they are still better off, however (un)fair that may be, but it was more in tax than you actually hold, by a wide margin.

      Or course we could, and should, argue it should be reveresed, but thats just yelling in to the wind at this point.