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Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year. Now every public school student is going to get free lunch (www.businessinsider.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3160934

Students in Massachusetts will get free lunch and breakfast at school thanks to a new 4% tax put on people who earn more than $1 million.

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[-] PuddingFeeling907@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

The rich need to pay their taxes or they will get spoiled.

[-] random65837@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago

Right, because they dont...... Flat tax could have been a thing, and people voted against it, because they wanted all the same "loopholes" for themselves when the realized what "fair" tax actually looks like.

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