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Billionaires with $1 salaries – and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches
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this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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The point is, no one living in the developed world has to live like that just to have financial freedom. Not while people like billionaires can be taxed enough that we can consider living like a miser archaic
We have to either take it from them, or figure out how to get as much freedom from the rat race as possible by other means. The taking it from them part is difficult because the people with the money also have most of the guns and, by extension, laws.
We used to take it from them. As with most things wrong with the US, Reagan fucked that up. The top tax rate was 70% before him.