You don't become a billionaire by playing by the rules.
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You don't become a billionaire by playing by the rules.
Actually you're wrong about that.
These guys do play by the rule: they obey the law to a tee. But... they obey the LETTER of the law, not the spirit. That's why nobody can't stop them and throw them in the slammer for tax evasion.
What you need to be a billionaire is to be psychopathic enough to think you're the only person whose interests matter, and have enough money to pay for equally psychopathic tax lawyers to establish some legal constructs for you that enable you to pay almost zero taxes legally. Once you're rich enough to pay the lawyers, you get exponentially richer.
It's legal, but they're still psychopathic sonsabitches.
Were there people who didn't know that?
i didn't know they paid taxes
The ones who ignored the Panama Papers
Straight from the archives!
No fucking shit, CBS. Nice of you to catch up.
Idiots.
Study finds thing studies already found, "someone should do something but they're rigging the system," says foreign alien economist who hates freedom and is French so you know what those guys would be doing if the US hadn't bailed their froggy asses out of WW2 amirite? Anyway clearly a communist, and we respect dissenting views here in the greatest country in the world but also we don't tolerate terrorist hate speech or European haircuts, as outlined in the latest executive order called, "The all good things, freedom and safety act," which identifies communists and other "lizard folk" as being a threat to children therefore we have no choice but to empower the DHS to deputize and arm edgy teenagers to march these hardened criminal, um economics professors, to a rehabilitation center nicknamed "planet death" where they will produce made in america plushies to compete with the threat of Chinese communist labubus that are a threat to democracy and pretty sure is a form of satanic witchcraft
Shithole country well on its way to being a Russia clone.
Pretty much. Most high wealth people's net worth is heavily made up of stocks. You don't pay tax on stock and don't pay tax when the price goes up. But you can use it to leverage a loan. You can leverage a million dollar loan against your stock and pay no tax on your million dollars. Then your stock goes up and you go to the bank and borrow more against the same stock because it's worth more.
Water is wet, more at 11!
Not lower tax rates. Lower taxes period.
Why did I read "...lower tax rates than you do, stupid finds"
But they use that savings to create jobs! Don't you like the feeling of that warm, golden liquid trickling down your face?
/s in case it wasn't obvious.