https://twitter.com/shaun_vids/status/1446396109945987099?t=hVxfiI91ddUdiC25E9cUQw&s=19

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        It often never has to! If my dad can save on his taxes with a trucker's income, I'm sure the million dollar a year business can figure it out.

      • Str8AroQueer [none/use name]
        hexagon
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        3 years ago

        Oh I know! It gets taxed (again, which is actually good btw, "double taxation" is fake news) at the individual rate!

        • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          What actually happens is most of it doesn't. He probably pays himself a salary out of the business, but the money being invested (i.e. "wealth") likely never leaves the business side of things.

          • Str8AroQueer [none/use name]
            hexagon
            ·
            3 years ago

            What actually happens is most of it doesn’t.

            An assumption on your part.

            This discussion exists in a vacuum of facts.

            • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              Well, given that he makes well over a million a year, and therefore almost definitely has an accountant, what I said above is a virtual guarantee.

              Unless you think he told his accountant "please maximize the taxes I pay to the federal government". Like, I agree that the house discourse is pointless, but it's also ridiculous to say that that kind of income won't convert to wealth quickly and easily.

              This discussion exists in a vacuum of facts.

              Yeah, that's why people are making reasonable assumptions. That's why I use words like "probably" and "likely".

              • Str8AroQueer [none/use name]
                hexagon
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                3 years ago

                ridiculous to say that that kind of income won’t convert to wealth quickly and easily.

                I never said that, so that's good

                • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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                  3 years ago

                  This whole thread of argument started with you pointing out the distinction between income and wealth. The whole point of this argument is that with that much income, it easily becomes wealth.

                  • Str8AroQueer [none/use name]
                    hexagon
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                    edit-2
                    3 years ago

                    But it isn't yet. And saying he's in the 0.1% is pointless if you're not talking about wealth, because then you're (not YOU I know) putting the streamer in the same category as billionaire capitalists, which only obscures things further.

    • Str8AroQueer [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      For the record, salary IS income. Both for tax purposes and just like generally.

      Hexbear.net needs more people who understand how this works lmao