The top 1% should be taxed a lot more to make up for the wealth gap.
Agree
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The Top 1% are already taxed more since the US has a progressive tax system.
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Helping the poor is our duty, and if we don't help enough, the state should step in.
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The fact that the richest people in this country don't pay taxes does not make sense.
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This should be the case. The tax rates are completely unreasonable in America.
Disagree
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We would all be more productive and wealthy without taxes. Charity requires abundance. Taxes rob us of productivity. Gov is terrible at allocating resources.
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The tax system is already designed to tax wealthy people more: the top 1 percent of all taxpayers (taxpayers with Adjusted Gross Income of $515,371 and above) earned 21.0 percent of all Adjusted Gross Income in 2017 but paid 38.5 percent of all federal income taxes (Source: IRS, Statistics of Income, Individual Income Rates and Tax Shares (2019).