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kpete

(71,965 posts) Wed Oct 16, 2019, 08:47 AM Oct 2019

Fox & Friends Diner Guest:"in 60s&70s-if you were a millionaire-your taxes were high-nobody bitched"

A Fox & Friends diner guest tells Pete Hegseth that the wealth gap "is just deplorable," and that "back in the 60s and 70s, if you were a millionaire, your taxes were awfully high ... nobody bitched about it then."

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Fox & Friends Diner Guest:"in 60s&70s-if you were a millionaire-your taxes were high-nobody bitched" (Original Post) kpete Oct 2019 OP

Guess he won't be invited to dinner again... durablend Oct 2019 #1

I hear people argue that if taxes are raised on the wealthy, they will not feel an incentive world wide wally Oct 2019 #2

durablend

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1. Guess he won't be invited to dinner again...

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Wed Oct 16, 2019, 08:49 AM

Oct 2019

world wide wally

(21,739 posts)

2. I hear people argue that if taxes are raised on the wealthy, they will not feel an incentive

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Oct 16, 2019, 09:25 AM

Oct 2019

To keep making millions and hiring people. But I have never seen even one billionaire or millionaire quit what they are doing because their taxes were too high. I don't think any of them are going to start driving a school bus to keep from paying a high rate of taxes.

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