Comments by "Kristopher Driver" (@paxdriver) on "US billionaires pay little to no taxes, leaked documents reveal | DW News" video.

  1. Single vs couples is totally different. Your spending power as a single adult working is doubling all kinds of household bills like heat, water, mortgage, insurance, cable, etc. Those all have sales taxes, plus no credits without kids or sharing unused tax credits gained as a reward for having a bit extra to put into RRSP with cheaper living for couples vs singles. It's much more than 36% if you consider liquor, smokes, weed and sales taxes lol
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  2.  @xythiera7255  I agree, that's why I included itemized examples of more taxes which aren't included in income tax calculations. But when you have a numbered corp to make your purchases through (expenses tax deducted), which you can earn shares which are capital gains taxed, and which can repatriate income to tax havens, then factors DO matter quite a lot. Especially considering the burden of tax placed on 70k and under income earners who don't have lawyers and llp to funnel their money through as a viable vehicle. The fee structures for filing make the option only available to the wealthy and that leaves hourly workers holding the bag for the deficit.
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  3.  @user-gz4ve8mw9l  that mentality is precisely why conflicts persistent indefinitely. It's naive and near sighted to assume that things that take time aren't as effective as the oversimplified alternative rather than putting in the work of communicating and organizing sufficiently to encourage collaborative constructive progress. Revolutions should be a last resort and we haven't yet even tried diplomacy or education, or public involvement with taxatiin structures, or reanalyzed of 1980's economic theories we'd otherwise already know don't work (austerity, trickle down, privatization of public services like school and health, minimum wage, BOC interest rates, just to name a few). You've given up without even applying known better solutions for the reason that known ineffective solutions haven't worked, and haven't worked quickly enough even if they did. It's lazy, to be frank.
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  4. Consumption tax rather than income tax would obviously make more sense than thus
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