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ItsjustMe

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Wed Jun 9, 2021, 11:18 AM Jun 2021

IRS documents show Bezos, Musk and Buffett pay almost no taxes (CNN)

Here's a good one. Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett and Elon Musk all walk into the IRS. But none of them, in various years, seem to have paid federal income taxes.
Or how about this one: The rich get richer ... because they don't always pay their fair share into the community chest.
This is US tax law. And now we have a map of how the wealthiest people exploit it thanks to a bombshell report from ProPublica, the investigative journalism nonprofit, which claims to have obtained years of tax returns for the wealthiest people in the country from an anonymous source.



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IRS documents show Bezos, Musk and Buffett pay almost no taxes (CNN) (Original Post) ItsjustMe Jun 2021 OP
Old news. demosincebirth Jun 2021 #1
Taxes are for little people. -nt sarchasm Jun 2021 #2
Who makes tax law ? MichMan Jun 2021 #3
Musk should join Bezos in riding in their respective rockets. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jun 2021 #4
4. Musk should join Bezos in riding in their respective rockets.
Wed Jun 9, 2021, 05:16 PM
Jun 2021

Just make sure the tanks contain an amount of fuel proportional to the amount of taxes they pay, i.e., if they pay 1% in taxes they get 1% of the needed fuel -- about enough to climb 3,500 feet before the engines cut off.

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