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if you make 100k a year that payout is 71 years worth of your wages. absurd.

no you need to pay taxes on the 100k. The 7.1M payout can easily pay a tax lawyer to find some convenient loophole to keep most of it.

Before Uncle Sam gets his cut. Much less after the robbery. How much of the 7 million be sucked up by Germany’s taxes?

If structured properly, Onkel Franz takes equally or less than Uncle Sam.

Regular folks on payroll would have to pay half of it, but boys in cashmere sweaters probably somehow pay 0%.

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