A lot of the people who work in tech are the ones who left reddit and came to lemmy…
They’re relatively liberal, until people start pointing out how they tend to make 3x the average American and are wealthy compared to everyone else.
As soon as their tax bracket comes up, they want to pretend that they have it just as bad as the rest of America.
A single person making over twice the median household income isn’t who we should be worrying about right now. They can pay their taxes just fine. Others are struggling to eat and afford rent.
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I’ve lost count of how many rich overseas workers have made 5+ replies to my comments in less than 10 minutes screaching about how they shouldn’t pay taxes
And every single one claims to be right on the line for having to pay it… yet want it thrown out for billionaires as well…
Apparently I can’t block replies to comment like on reddit, so I’m just blocking every “temporary poor billionaire” who wants to spend energy online arguing billionaires should pay taxes because it would mean they do too
I’m happy to pay more taxes and I regularly vote for that to happen. That doesn’t mean the exit tax isn’t fucking stupid and blatantly unfair.
If you actually gave a shit about taxing rich people you’d realize this exit tax doesn’t affect them at all, since they don’t have regular income to tax. It’s a tax on workers who don’t even live in the country.
$120k isn’t even enough to buy a house in most high COL areas. With a family you’ll never retire on that income either. Yet some of you are acting like these are ‘rich’ people so you can conveniently ignore their opinions.
I agree with your 1st paragraph. But IIUC the exit tax is not on wage income - it’s on their global wealth. I don’t see how the rich can escape that without cheating. But the problem is that non-rich middle class workers have homes and they’re being targeted.
It’s a tax on workers who don’t even live in the country.
Yeah indeed that’s the shame of the US tax policy. But to be clear that tax impacts citizens living abroad, not those who renounce. Renouncing actually escapes that.
A lot of the people who work in tech are the ones who left reddit and came to lemmy…
They’re relatively liberal, until people start pointing out how they tend to make 3x the average American and are wealthy compared to everyone else.
As soon as their tax bracket comes up, they want to pretend that they have it just as bad as the rest of America.
A single person making over twice the median household income isn’t who we should be worrying about right now. They can pay their taxes just fine. Others are struggling to eat and afford rent.
Edit:
I’ve lost count of how many rich overseas workers have made 5+ replies to my comments in less than 10 minutes screaching about how they shouldn’t pay taxes
And every single one claims to be right on the line for having to pay it… yet want it thrown out for billionaires as well…
Apparently I can’t block replies to comment like on reddit, so I’m just blocking every “temporary poor billionaire” who wants to spend energy online arguing billionaires should pay taxes because it would mean they do too
No one has time for the Scrouge McDuck defenders.
I’m happy to pay more taxes and I regularly vote for that to happen. That doesn’t mean the exit tax isn’t fucking stupid and blatantly unfair.
If you actually gave a shit about taxing rich people you’d realize this exit tax doesn’t affect them at all, since they don’t have regular income to tax. It’s a tax on workers who don’t even live in the country.
$120k isn’t even enough to buy a house in most high COL areas. With a family you’ll never retire on that income either. Yet some of you are acting like these are ‘rich’ people so you can conveniently ignore their opinions.
I agree with your 1st paragraph. But IIUC the exit tax is not on wage income - it’s on their global wealth. I don’t see how the rich can escape that without cheating. But the problem is that non-rich middle class workers have homes and they’re being targeted.
Yeah indeed that’s the shame of the US tax policy. But to be clear that tax impacts citizens living abroad, not those who renounce. Renouncing actually escapes that.
No one gives a fuck about your attempt to sow baseless division