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1. Qasim Rashid, Esq. (qasimrashid@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 09:05:58 JST Qasim Rashid, Esq.

   EIon Musk’s Wealth
   2009: $.6B
   2023: $249B

   Jeff Bezos’s Wealth
   2009: $6B
   2023: $153B

   Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth
   2009: $.6B
   2023: $105B

   Federal Minimum Wage
   2009: $7.25
   2023: $7.25

   Billionaire tax rate: 8.2%
   Worker tax rate: 13%

   Pay workers.
   Tax Billionaires.
   Save our economy.

   • 🇵🇸 أحمد 🇺🇦 (ahmad@bassam.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 09:05:58 JST 🇵🇸 أحمد 🇺🇦

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     My wealth
     2009: 0
     2023: $100 😎
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   • 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 09:07:20 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @QasimRashid

     Wow so much misleading data here not sure where to start…

     Billionaire tax rate: 8.2%
     Worker tax rate: 13%

     The billionaire tax rate you site is across the entire family then averaged per person. So a billionaire with 5 new born kids and a wife would show1/7th his real paid tax rate.”

     As if that werent bad enough the worker tax rate is the number as it would be calculated for individual works, not diluted across the family. So clearly this is an intentional cheat.

     How do I know? Because literally the first hit when i google searched it gave those numbers and when investigating the source I found the intentionally misleading nature of it.

     Federal Minimum Wage
     2009: $7.25
     2023: $7.25

     This has two problems.. 1st, you are cmparing an entire persons life worth (including inheretance) and comparing it against someone supposed hourly wage. These arent even remotely comparable or related things.

     On top of that you used the federal minimum wage which is not actually used, anywhere. The states all have their own minimum wage, and they are all above that of the federal minimum wage. So the federal minimum wage you list is literally not the minimum wage used anywhere

     This is a big reason why these sorts of arguments are dismissed by so many people, they are so over the top dishonest and biased people have stopped paying attention to this sort of nonsense.

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   • Dire Sock :verified: (diresock@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 09:07:43 JST Dire Sock :verified:

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     • 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
     @freemo @QasimRashid Well... five states don't have a minimum wage: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee.
     Two states, Georgia and Wyoming, have a minimum wage below $7.25 per hour.
     
     The rest of your points still stand.
     Minimal wage has nothing to do with the accomplishments of individuals.
     
     The massive increase in wealth of anyone who gets into congress is a more interesting trend that needs investigation.
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   • 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 09:07:54 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     • Dire Sock :verified:

     @diresock

     Well… five states don’t have a minimum wage: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee.
     Two states, Georgia and Wyoming, have a minimum wage below $7.25 per hour.

     Seems I was mistaken there. Just double checked, indeed there are two states below federal minimum wage.

     The massive increase in wealth of anyone who gets into congress is a more interesting trend that needs investigation.

     Indeed that would be more interesting a argument.

     @QasimRashid

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