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Comment by ecshafer

6 hours ago

Taxes paid was actually what was said.

I may be going astray, but I can see a way to degenerate "taxes paid" to "taxes before deductions" to "income since it relates to taxes anyways"

  • It doesn't have to be that complicated. Just absolute terms could have the desired effect.

    - 1% tax of 10 million = 100k

    - 20% tax of 100k = 20k

    Hence, the rich pays more tax.

    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_returns_of_Donald_Trump "Trump paid no net federal income taxes in 11 of 18 years of the past two decades. After the refund, Trump had an average tax bill of $1.4 million per year over the 18 years.[52][176] In 2016, Trump paid only $750 in federal income tax, and in 2017, he paid another $750 in federal income tax."

      If there was an unequal vote, I am pretty sure rich people would want votes as heavy as possible.