Report: New York and California Implements 50% Top Tax Rate on Wealthy

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This is going to backfire comedically on both of them...

The idea the rich need these states is beyond stupid, the idea you're going to force them to finally start paying taxes is even stupider...:heh:

Neither state is looking at the real problem for them which is going to burst badly, both states are currently undergoing a mass exodus of their middle class aka the American payer...

no it won’t because the federal is going to be in that range pretty soon if Biden keeps his word
 

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The 1% has finessed y’all again to cape for them. Please looks at the tax rate during Americas golden era. It was 91% in the 50s and 60 to 90 in the 70s. And guess what the rich still came out insanely wealthy and most didn’t complain.

This is because they knew their money contributed to the American infrastructure and workers who in turn were able to afford their products and services. They got their money back through capitalism. But all that shot changed with Reagan.

The rich are lucky it’s only 50% and not 90:stopitslime:. That tax rate helped America become the wealthiest nation alwith the strongest economy. We forget that because of how well the greedy rich lobby.

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I don’t know if you’ve ever been to Texas before but the major cities are definitely not some hillbilly hick backwater you seem to think it is. Especially not Austin or Dallas

my co worker years ago moved to Austin, says it feels like California city but you go driving outside of that little enclave and you’re hit with the hard reality that you’re in a red state
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This will only make them move to another state.


Will it really though?

I made $300K last year and 43% of my money went to taxes.

There are only so many places in the country I can make that doing what I do and they're all in blue states. Going to Florida or Texas would mean I would have to take 50+% pay cut

The cost of housing would be cheaper but my car loan gonna be the same, my student loans gonna be the same, cable/internet gonna be the same, and so and so on.

Shoot, in Texas I might be paying $5000 in electric and water bills if it snows :mjgrin:
 

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Brooklyn keeps on taking it.
Will it really though?

I made $300K last year and 43% of my money went to taxes.

There are only so many places in the country I can make that doing what I do and they're all in blue states. Going to Florida or Texas would mean I would have to take 50+% pay cut

The cost of housing would be cheaper but my car loan gonna be the same, my student loans gonna be the same, cable/internet gonna be the same, and so and so on.

Shoot, in Texas I might be paying $5000 in electric and water bills if it snows :mjgrin:


Smart post. Republican analyst never make any of these mentions when talking about this.


Even in the OP video one of the guys says “Texas has no state income tax and is thriving so how don’t democrats see this?”

But the Republican purposely leaves out the biggest fact about taxes. For every tax you don’t have you find the revenue in other sources. Texas has one of the highest property taxes in the nation. The Republican didn’t make any mentions of this in the video.
 

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Here's why Europe has mostly ditched wealth taxes over the last 25 years — even as Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders seek them for the US

What the U.S. Can Learn From Wealth Taxes in the OECD
Democrats/liberals wont change this silly approach till they have to.
France did the same thing and repealed the wealth tax quickly when the rich began doing what everyone said they wouldn't do... move.



:francis:...what sucks is that the people at the bottom are the ones ultimately hurt by this progressive nonsense.

People aren't moving out the US due to a wealth tax. This isn't France. I work in finance lol.

The highest marginal tax rate in this country was 91% for much of the 20th century, until 1964 when it moved down to a freedom loving...77%. Outside of a brief flirtation with Cuba becoming a tax haven (until...well you know), most of the US' most financially dominant years occurred when the tax rate was significantly higher than it is now. Any discussion of rates that doesn't acknowledge this - while simultaneously doom-casting severe consequences - is disingenuous.

In terms of NY/CA...I wouldn't support those rates for a simple reason: the current STATE rate is probably high enough, and the focus should be on raising federal rates. New taxes aren't going to help NY and CA recover from Covid. In NY's case, legalizing weed is a great step towards extra tax revenue. In terms of people moving...as I said that's not a concern for the country (ie moving out of country), but moving out of state? That's certainly a concern with Florida and Texas out there.
 

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The 1% has finessed y’all again to cape for them. Please looks at the tax rate during Americas golden era. It was 91% in the 50s and 60 to 90 in the 70s. And guess what the rich still came out insanely wealthy and most didn’t complain.

This is because they knew their money contributed to the American infrastructure and workers who in turn were able to afford their products and services. They got their money back through capitalism. But all that shot changed with Reagan.

The rich are lucky it’s only 50% and not 90:stopitslime:. That tax rate helped America become the wealthiest nation alwith the strongest economy. We forget that because of how well the greedy rich lobby.
No one ever really paid that. America was wealthy because every competitor was bankrupt and destroyed from WW2.
 

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Where are they gonna go?:sas1:

Texas and Florida is an easy choice :gucci:
 

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Think this is the 1920s and NYC is still the center of the world brehs.

Well it is the 20’s:mjgrin:
50 states. where are they gonna go.

Texas Florida even Milwaukee has some fortune 500 and 100 companies there. Plus some other southern states are pretty cheap to do business in.
Sure. But there’s more to their identity than being rich, part of that is what New York provides and what other places cannot. And those places have their own identities. It’s gonna be cheaper to some to stay home than forge new identities. New York is a nationality.:yeshrug:
 

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Stupid. If you work your way up to that salary you should be able to benefit from it instead of paying more tax.
this is an old taxation rate and it doesn't apply to income under a certain amount

they would never tax 50% from your entire income.
Here's why Europe has mostly ditched wealth taxes over the last 25 years — even as Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders seek them for the US

What the U.S. Can Learn From Wealth Taxes in the OECD
Democrats/liberals wont change this silly approach till they have to.
France did the same thing and repealed the wealth tax quickly when the rich began doing what everyone said they wouldn't do... move.



:francis:...what sucks is that the people at the bottom are the ones ultimately hurt by this progressive nonsense.
but tax regular people heavier even thought they do provide actual benefits like universal healthcare.

no one way is right. if you guys don't want to tax the rich you will be holding that bag :yeshrug:

pretty sure this rate don't kick in until you are squarely in the upper one percent earning level of the country.
 
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