Yeah and the senators who ratified women’s right to vote were all elected by men but they still did the ethical thing.

At least Sanders seems to want to reduce billionaires’ disproportionate influence on politics.

Maybe you’re ok if Elon Musk’s opinion on how much you should get taxed counts a billion times more than yours, but you really shouldn’t be.

This article claims they pay a higher effective tax rate, not more in taxes. A citizen working the same position would pay even more in taxes since they would also have to pay income tax.

Maybe the headline should be that sales + other flat taxes are becoming an increasing burden for low income workers. This is the problem for the illegal immigrants in the study, and even more of a problem for citizens who earn the same amount.

The more we know about this, the better. Depressing as it may be, learning about these means eventually we may be able to revive them.