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"Twitter owner calls Facebook founder a ‘cuck’ as rancour grows over launch of Threads, a competitor to Musk’s network"

Man I thought this was The Onion at first

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What the fuck are you on about

[-] NotSteve_@beehaw.org 37 points 1 year ago

Not American but the US had an extremely high tax rate on the rich for most of its prosperous years. It was only recent removed and you now have massive wealth inequality

Well slap my balls, TIL.

Bet you thats why trusts and such were invented…

[-] blaise@champserver.net 11 points 1 year ago

Also, the reason people throw out the 90% figure is because that's about what it was at the time. Granted most of the rich still managed to only pay ~70%.

Here's a couple jumping points: Historical chart, US tax history on Wikipedia

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