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by anth_anm 2635 days ago
> The government can easily solve that through taxation if it so chooses.

Except the billionaires pay millions to ensure that doesn't happen. The system is corrupt by design.

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Probably depending on country.

In the US the following shows how much tax is being paid by whom:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-14/top-3-of-...

The top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual income taxes (37.3 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (30.5 percent).