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I've noted before how the truly wealthy don't need any taxable income (they usually will have some, but don't need to).  So, their tax rates are inherently going to be low, or even zero.  Imagine I own a hundred million dollars in Apple stock.  I need say $2 million a year for my lifestyle.  I borrow off my stock holding that $2 million tax free.  I can do this for a long time especially if the stock appreciates.  I may pay 5% interest or so, maybe less.

Yes, we all know this and wish we were in that space.

Did you read the article?

The top 1% of earners pay almost half of the total revenue the IRS collects.

That's the point. The rich ARE being taxed.

Ahh, Europe.

Utopia!

There is a big difference between being rich and being wealthy. We've discussed this at length in the past. The top 1% earners are rich, but possibly not wealthy. If they are both, that's great.

Imagine, dream on, that the various political "parties"  in the US actually compromised on various issues like immigration, tax and SS reform, climate change, health insurance, education, crime, gun control, minimum wage, whatever.  Neither side would get everything, the extremes on each side would be screaming (let them), 

I think "we" would be less active, less willing to donate funds and time to "our side", less vocal on SM, etc.

Each party would lose influence, power, control.

Dream on.

It should be incuded in the social insurance cost bar as that would reflect ALL such taxes, including those paid by employers.

Yeah, total corporate tax contributions would be greater.  It should say "corporate income taxes".

There is certainly a "feeling" that all corporations are evil, even though some are nonprofits.

and the Sooners

I thought my company was amoral, some of the higher level folks were what I'd consider immoral.  To get to that higher level almost required a person to do things I viewed as immoral, there were some exceptions.  I think if companies could "get away with it", most would do scketchy things for profit.

Much of the amoral behavior is caused by tax codes. They need some fixing.