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submitted 11 months ago by runiq@feddit.de to c/politics@beehaw.org

"Americans are rightfully concerned when very wealthy families use loopholes and accounting strategies to avoid paying their fair share," Wyden said. These people "didn’t even bother."

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[-] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

washington state just had its first payments on its new 7% capital gains tax on all stock and commodity sales over $250,000.00.

of the 3100 people that paid the tax ... they paid out OVER $800,000,000.00 to washington state.

There are still ~2500 people that own have yet to file and pay in the state.

So ~6000 people are hoarding at least $1,500,000,000.00 in washington state alone. Billions just sitting there in the hands of basically a few thousand people.

Fuck your sales tax.

Tax the fuck out of the rich.

[-] los_chill@programming.dev 7 points 11 months ago

Sounds like Washington state is at least doing something about it. Hopefully more states follow suit.

[-] billygoat@catata.fish 1 points 11 months ago

Only found this source but looks like that is legit.

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