Yeah, but where do the rich people get more money from than the poor? And I don’t mean middle-class doctor/lawyer “rich”, I mean CEO-of-15-companies rich.
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Aux@lemmy.world 2 months agoThe problem is two fold. First, the poorer people pay less taxes, thus their streets have less money. Additionally, the richer folk tend to donate to funds to make additional improvement. The solution is simple - pay more money.
maynarkh@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Aux@lemmy.world 2 months ago
CEO is not that rich, only a few well known exceptions are. Real rich people don’t live in the cities, their families own huge swathes of land and they’re totally fine living in their mansions and castles far away from the cities.
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 months ago
I’d argue the poor pay a vastly higher percentage of their income on taxes, but I like to include all taxes in that figure, not just income tax.
Aux@lemmy.world 2 months ago
More than half of households in the UK are net recipients, meaning that those who earn more, contribute more and those who earn less actually use more in social services than they contribute in taxes. Basically those who earn more pay for those who earn less. I don’t think there are many countries where this is not true.