"Over a certain amount" being 10 million. 99% of athletes don't even reach that.
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Oh fuck. I completely forgot about losing out on the money. Just when we'll need it to reinvent the midfield too.
That's exactly the problem. You tax entertainers, and star athletes. You don't get any of the wealthy who hold their assets in investments and generate wealth through dividends and capital gains (a lot unrealized). So the result if someone wants to buy an expensive car for $400,000, they some stock and pay 50% of the applicable marginal rate (if they don''t figure out a way to get around that). So the result is that these rich just accumulate wealth & pay very little tax because they have accountants to manage that. So then who does AOC's tax policy target? 1) star athletes 2) singers/actors 3) lottery winners
And on Lottery Winners...
On lottery winners: imagine you win a
$930,000,000 powerball. Excluding State Tax, you would keep
$585,000,000 at current rates so ~. So an effective tax rate of 37%. With AOC, you'd pay ~$3.7M in income tax on first 10 and then pay $644M on remainder (69.64% effective rate). So you keep
$283,000,000M less state taxes. 45% of ticket proceeds (~$2.5B) already go to government organizations. So with AOC's law $2.5B of private citizen dollars get transferred to government with 45% going to government, 5% to pay expenses, the remaining 50% goes to winners. 68% of winner funds goes to jackpot.
So essentially:
Non-Jackpot (16%x.37%) = 6% of sales to tax before state taxes
Jackpot (34% x 69.6%) = 24% of sales to tax before state taxes
To State Governments, Education, Other = 45% of sales to tax
Admin expense 0% to tax
= 75% of ticket sales go to government, before state taxes.
State Tax Estimate: 3% from jackpot, 1% non-jackpot
= 79% goes to government.
To me that is absolute absurd.
To be clear: the wealthy should pay more taxes. Too often super rich find ways to avoid taxation. But a 70% tax rate on ordinary income above $10,000,000 is not the way to do it. It's insanity. You just end up penalizing: athletes, artists, and lottery winners.