I keep hearing people say "tax the rich" but how do the rich not pay taxes? (sorry for the dumb question, I don't know much about this)

but yeah,

I'm really uneducated with this type of stuff, but am trying to learn 👀

plz b gentle

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It’s really very simple. But don’t expect anyone to mutter it out loud.

Rich folk fund politicians.
Politician pass laws/policies where the rich get tax breaks.

And even if they do lay a tax on the rich, they are in position to pass off costs into their consumers..
trickle down bum railing it called.

This is EXACTLY why term limits and audits are to politicians, what sunlight and wooden stakes is to vampires.

+ they don’t really teach kids from public schools about tax havens and loopholes..
they’re more focused on what toilet to piss in and what pronoun they gunna wear today..