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"Today, ProPublica is launching the first in a series of stories based on the private tax data of some of our nation’s richest citizens. We obtained the information from an anonymous source who provided us with large amounts of information on the ultrawealthy, everything from the taxes they paid to the income they reported to the profits from their stock trades.
In the coming months, we plan to use this material to explore how the nation’s wealthiest people — roughly the .001% — exploit the structure of our tax code to avoid the tax burdens borne by ordinary citizens."
- this could get ugly real quick...grafician
- It's how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.utopian
- ^ it will if there's not something down about wealth distribution. Sad that people bitch about how we can't afford education or healthcare, butformed
- they're fine with the wealthiest paying next to nothing (so much for the 'hey, don't tax them, they pay the most taxes' crap)formed
- actually they don't pay income taxes because they don't have a salary?
they own assets that appreciate in value, so it's not their fault, but the Govsgrafician