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volanger t1_jckgru7 wrote

Reply to comment by 2SLGBTQIA in Report: Taxing the rich won't make them leave CT by ctkyle

Ct ain't the best for business, but it makes up for it in several ways. I don't think we should become slaves that bow to the wishes of corporations. And a lot of those mention that it's headquarters that are leaving, which isn't a lot of jobs. Manufacturing jobs don't appear to be leaving from what your articles are saying. And there's lots of growth in small businesses in the state. If we want to thrive we be trying to bring in green tech businesses (cause they are booming), and other high education jobs, which offer high wages.

But corporate headquarters, not overly concerned since a lot of them like to go to nyc, but live in ct.

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mkt853 t1_jckf3xz wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Report: Taxing the rich won't make them leave CT by ctkyle

The original argument was that poor people don't pay taxes. I am refuting that because it is simply not true. That's all that is happening here. OP wanted to peddle their right wing propaganda, and I am calling them out on it. The entire argument is literally what gets put out daily by conservative "think tanks" and "study committees" funded by the top 0.01%, and Americans, bless their hearts, happily eat it up.

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mkt853 t1_jck7x4x wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Report: Taxing the rich won't make them leave CT by ctkyle

The people that benefit most from society and "the system" get to pay more in taxes for that privilege. That's just how it works in a progressive tax system. Most of the state's revenue comes from income and sales/use tax. In the 2021-22 fiscal year, the state took in $12B in income tax and $6B in sales tax which combined made up 72% of all revenue. Is it poor people or rich people that pay the bulk of that $6B in sales tax that accounts for nearly one quarter of the state's revenue? If anyone cares you can read all about it here: https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/DRS/Research/annualreport/DRS-FY22-Annual-Report.pdf

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FTLast t1_jck7dlh wrote

Reply to Report: Taxing the rich won't make them leave CT by ctkyle

Rich people are always going to want to have houses on the water down by NYC, so they can live the life of leisure and zip into the City for shopping and dining. Even if they "leave" the state, they'll just spend 6 months and a day down in Florida and come back to their Greenwich property.

I've always thought the best solution is a property tax on houses over some value- an Estate tax, if you will.

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mkt853 t1_jck58i3 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Report: Taxing the rich won't make them leave CT by ctkyle

It isn't the "other guy." Every single person in the state pays taxes in one way or another. Cheery picking income taxes while ignoring all other revenue and who contributes to it is someone not arguing in good faith. The talking points are always structured exactly the same way and don't even try to hide the real message: we need lower taxes for the super rich and corporations. Only dumb people fall for this s*it.

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