• TehPers@beehaw.org
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    Depending on your investments, the interest and dividends off a few million dollars should be able to sustain someone entirely on its own while still growing in value over time.

    You don’t need to be a billionaire for that. It feels like the tax brackets need to go up to 100% after around a million or so in income.

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      So, slightly above the 1950s marginal tax rate that gave us the society the GOP wants to drag us back into without taxing the rich? That’s a stool with one leg.