Comment by earnesti
Comment by earnesti a year ago
Ordinary people can buy the stock of the said companies and benefit from the tax saved. Probably they already own them through pension funds.
Comment by earnesti a year ago
Ordinary people can buy the stock of the said companies and benefit from the tax saved. Probably they already own them through pension funds.
That take feels kinda... Detached from the average person to me? I don't know how to take it, just like when you hear gates saying a banana cost 10$. Common Joe would benefit much more from taxes being actually paid than profits being accumulated by companies just so they can crush the competition more and earn more and (...)
> just like when you hear gates saying a banana cost 10$
When was that?
I've never seen a real video, it may as well be a common saying after being on the internet for a so long time. However, there is a video of gates trying to guess grocery prices on the internet, and he's not that bad. I think at this point it's just an internet meme that exist to reference billionaires being disconnected from reality
And presumably some of the 66% are either children/students who have never had a job but will have a 401k or similar when they get one, or retirees who cashed out their 401k and bought an annuity (perhaps not the absolute smartest thing to do, but something a decent number of people do).
Which, to me, looks very subpar rather than companies paying taxes in the country where they actually make profit