Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in?

• IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You don’t need to be Elon-wealthy to get those percentages. Over 500 000€/year salary gives you nice 50% tax bracket. You absolutely are not poor if your taxes are that high, but you don’t need to be CEO of Google either.

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  • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh, my bad, only a half million a year gets you into that tax bracket. My bad, you’re right, that is such a low amount.

    It’s terrible that after that amount you get taxed on what you made over, rather than the whole thing.

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    • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      the joke was that in the USA you can be multi millionaire+ wealthy and pay 0% tax

      That is the actual joke here, agreed. If, and that’s a pretty damn big if, there was any sense on USA government they could just take our progressive steps and leave everything above 35% away from it and still have a crapload of budget to actually make their country great again.

      But spending 100 million bucks per hour to demolish schools half way across the world is cool too I guess.

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