• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    17 days ago

    Asking rich people to contribute 2% more? Oh, the humanity! How will they ever survive this insult? Surely, society will collapse under the economic strain.

    • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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      17 days ago

      190k is doing all right these days if someone has a family. Single? Ya probably pretty well off, but I wouldn’t call it “rich” still. I imagine a rich person with a giant house on land with all the comforts they could want.

      • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
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        17 days ago

        Well if you’re making 190k and you don’t have at least a mortgage on a big house on land and a great many creature comforts you fumbled somewhere