• anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 hours ago

    This is just peak brainworm. What does someone making nearly a million dollars a year even do with an extra 7k?? Make their scroodge McDuck vault a little deeper? Doesn’t matter how deep it is, you still can’t dive into it like a pool. Idiots.

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      2 hours ago

      Pretend that’s the end of the bracket and it doesn’t increase from there. Now the guy making 100,000,000 gets an extra $700,000

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      5 hours ago

      To be honest, if you’re able to make a million a year (even hundreds of thousands a year), you can afford an accountant who will tell you not to take compensation as employment income.

      If you’re a business owner you’ll be taking a significant share as dividends, or if you’re an executive you’ll be taking stock options or other share based compensation. If done correctly, you can not only take advantage of lower tax rates but also defer taxes to future years.

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          They are alluding to capital gains. If you don’t need money now, you take 50 million dollars in stock, hold it for at least a year, and now you’re paying 15% or less instead of whatever the top tax bracket would be (like 37% or something) if you were to take it as employment income.

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      9 hours ago

      No, you totally can dive into a pile of gold and swim in it and they should definitely all try it. It works better the higher the diving board is.

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      10 hours ago

      they use dollar bills instead of gold coins, you can get a cushy landing and swim through it pretty well.