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"Pay their fair share"

3% of us are floating 50% of the population. How much more "fair" can we get?

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”When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'” -Don Marquis

“When a topic is complex, offering quotes adds little to the conversation” - Anonymous

Sentences lose meaning over time?

True, Don Marquis will lose meaning after reparations.

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit” - Somerset Maugham

Nothing stopping you moving to a low tax environment and conducting all your business there if you think this is 'unfair'.

The concept of fair is alien with civilisation and taxation; society/economy/governments services are all intrinsically linked.

Actually the concept of fair is entirely inherent in civilization.

Nature doesn't care for "fair".

It's precisely within a civilization that you can deem a taxation scheme as fair or not.

Wait, you’re in support of the common practice of wealthy going to tax havens?

I think they are in support of the uncommon practice of the wealthy living in those tax havens.

The fact the US allows their money to go while they stay in the US is the point of contention.

If rich people want to actually leave then that's fully their right to so, but mysteriously that doesn't happen very much...

47% of the population doesn’t pay any federal income tax at all (Mitt Romney’s famous quote from the 2012 election). How can they justify demanding the rich “pay their fair share”?

Jared Kushner also doesn't pay any federal income tax. Is he not rich?

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