What's very cool about the two richest people on Earth, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, is that they both made their fortunes in Washington State, the state with the most regressive tax policy in the country, with a whooping 0% income tax and 0% capital gains tax.
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in the case of California, remember that they were until recently a red state. orange county gave us Nixon and Reagan and voters there used to be hardcore anti-tax.
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tell me about it, sales taxes can reach up to 9% depending on county although WA does have some other business taxes, your statement about repressiveness is still true
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I've seen 9.5-9.8% in King and Snohomish counties.
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And they still complain about it
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Good coffee tho
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Man that sure does sound like a tax policy specifically designed to keep down poor people
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Yep. Jealousy has no medicine. Classism is as powerful as racism. You can make a lot of money using both as tools of propaganda.
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Difference is one was born there
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