We have poor American citizen who had joined our military and put their lives on the line, fight and died, to protect our country. But we, also, have rich businesses and companies who open their headquarters overseas to avoid paying taxes. The poor is also made or asked to carry burden.

It’s such a joke. Tax the people that buy lobbyists. Lol.

@ClassWarVeteran

Жыл бұрын

Rich Man’s World kzread.info/dash/bejne/q5V2p4-IoZffYqQ.html

@jkacz9466

Жыл бұрын

Bingo 🎯, It is a joke. Red or Blue, What's the difference. A one party system with two factions.

@kayt9576

Жыл бұрын

Lobbyists for all corporations need to be limited. There are 3 lobbyists for every congressmen and senator in U.S. government. How lobbyists does oor citizens have?

@learndo7405

Жыл бұрын

Tax the heck out of lobbyists. They're all a bunch of greedy lawyers anyway.

This aired in 2010, The national debt was 13 trillion. It's 32 trillion now.

@Beastzeus12

3 ай бұрын

34 now

@user-fn9os7gp4w

2 ай бұрын

This comment was posted 1 year ago, today March 21, 2024 national debt is 34.5 trillion

TAX THE POLITICIANS!!!

@GPWGP

Жыл бұрын

You obviously didn't make it past the 9th grade

@CreatingAlong

Жыл бұрын

It should be illegal for a politician or a politicians spouse to purchase stock while in office.

@theman44ful

Жыл бұрын

They do lmao

I dont think that taxing incomes over $250.K , a rich mans tax rate at 30% is outrageous.. After WW2 the top earners had a 50% income rate 30% is not to high at all

@rewardilicious

Жыл бұрын

What about before WW2? And do you realize when they had insanely high taxes in the past, they had more loopholes? Also I'll never understand how people want to have a higher percentage tax for the rich. Percentages already scale. If someone makes 10 billion dollars, and they pay 20% that's 2 billion. If you make 50K and pay 20% that's 10K. The billionaire still pays 200,000x more. If you guys want meaningful change you have to be fair. Flat 20% for everyone, all loopholes cut out. And the poor will already get government assistance so their effective amount of money paid falls naturally that way when they get let's say 10K worth of benefits.

No matter how much this matter is dissected, it all results to GREED!!!!!!!

@carolynmorris7303

2 ай бұрын

Worse than that!

The greed among the rich is gotten out of hand and so sick of it.

@giuffre714

Жыл бұрын

Can you provide an example?

@jamesbillingsby8043

8 ай бұрын

@@giuffre714 Watching CPI go up 500% since 1970 while wages went up 80%, profiting from the increased CPI. Neglecting to pay fair wadges, now we lost the middle class.

@giuffre714

8 ай бұрын

@@jamesbillingsby8043 Didn't people make $5 an hour in 1970?

Corporate and government greed is the real problem.

@ClassWarVeteran

Жыл бұрын

Then let’s change the system that inherently gives rise to this and even incentives it. kzread.info/dash/bejne/q5V2p4-IoZffYqQ.html

@AmericanTeacher-USA

Жыл бұрын

Alex Murdaugh.......

@randibgood

Жыл бұрын

​@@AmericanTeacher-USAThat was individual greed.

This is one of the most anger inducing videos I have seen about politics recently.

@genepozniak

Жыл бұрын

This was from 2010. Things have changed.

I'm about to turn 59 on the 17th of this month and I've been watching this show I'd say for at least 50 years! ty for excellent programing and congratulations on the success of staying on the air!

@M.M0709

Жыл бұрын

Wishing you not only a Happy Birthday on the 17th, but many more years of joy!

@SandyWolf-

Жыл бұрын

@@M.M0709 thank you!😁

@leonardjoseph6309

Жыл бұрын

Very true 🙏 they did really good.. happy birthday to you on the 17

@ldIezz

Жыл бұрын

happy late bday

@markmadsen6828

Жыл бұрын

The Gov. PAYS them to stay on AIR... In 2023 anyway...

if they have headquarters outside of the USA, to be able to service the USA, they have to pay taxes

@bdanner302

Жыл бұрын

ohhh but your going to raise how much it costs to go on a cruise! its everybody's RIGHT to go on a cruise 🤣

@rewardilicious

Жыл бұрын

You think they don't pay other taxes to service the USA? Import taxes. Payroll taxes. Sales taxes (which they collect and pay.) Capital gains taxes for the shareholders (double tax.) Property & TPP taxes on their assets here.

@nanizon

Жыл бұрын

@@rewardilicious Obviously they do not pay large enough Import Taxes!

Lacking an awareness of humanity, fairness, and justice, all I can say is that I am so grateful to not be holding their hand on their judgment day.

3:19 if you think that is big, the Total Unfunded Liabilities is more than $180 Trillion. Liabilities towards the government equally spread out to every citizen of the United States would leave every citizens to pay more than $543,000 to the U.S. Government to eliminate the Total Unfunded Liabilities. We can't go on forever like this. Rising liabilities and a decreasing workforce is a recipe for disaster for the future of the U.S.

The most important thing is to get rid of all the tax loopholes for the rich and corporations. We need to vote more people like Bernie Sanders and AOC into the government. People who actually work for the middle class instead of the billionaires.

@puddinjr1121

Жыл бұрын

The rich will always be one step ahead and figure way to move the money to not get taxed. I don’t blame them either, if I were in their shoes I’d do the same exact thing. Even if a rich person couldn’t move the money you can only tax them but so much before all his wealth is gone. Then who will you tax? Ah yes, right back to the people who are already footing the bill. The middle class. You don’t need an economics class to figure that out. Yeah socialism is all fine and good until you run out of everyone’s money. Then what????

@blueman1470

Жыл бұрын

You are not making sense. They are hiding the money for the tax breaks, so lower the tax rate and get some money back. Bernie Sanders makes great talking points, but I will not work at any practical level. The politician thing is beyond corrupt.

@Corkfish1

Жыл бұрын

Lol!!!!! Yeah that would be the end.

@8StringKeith

Жыл бұрын

🤮

@djp1234

Жыл бұрын

@@Corkfish1 that would be the end of corruption and screwing over the middle class

Taxing the rich needs to be implemented nation wide, while tax cuts for the middle class also needs to be implemented nation wide. The answer is simple and obvious

@slicktheslickster

Жыл бұрын

If that was done, the politicians who voted for this measure would be out of a job. Guess who votes? It's not the middle class.

@oldcat87

Жыл бұрын

Won’t happen. They will tax middle class more without touching the rich. The only thing middle class can do is to move to Florida and Texas where there are no state taxes

@Peacefulwarrior975

Жыл бұрын

@@slicktheslickster everyone I know votes… regardless of their class

@timallison8560

Жыл бұрын

we have a deficit that is on the verge of sinking our country, we cannot have any tax cuts, the only way out is to tax the wealthy and cut government spending.

@mapples007

Жыл бұрын

Show me a congress that has ever been less than 90% millionaires. They're not going to vote against their own interest. That's for republican voters.

The rich have a disproportionately larger amount of income. They generate revenue with just their income because it's so much. Also, not everyone but for the rich there are so many tax loop holes and was around paying taxes. The wealthiest Americans may be avoiding $163 billion in income taxes every year, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, as sited on CNBC. Unfortunately our country is headed to dark times with devaluation of the U.S. currency and a large budget deficit. Yes the problem needs to be fixed at it source, however with working class Americans already struggling to get by, it's time everyone do their part and that means the rich paying more taxes.

@bcase5328

Жыл бұрын

The top 10 to 20% are holding a lot of funds out of circulation. The gap between the mode mid-point and the top 10% is too great. More than 50% of the US population should be within $50,000/year of the mode mid-point. The middle is hollowing out. That is bad for our society. Not having a broad and deep middle is unstable (like banana republics). It doesn't matter if the US corporate tax rate is 30%, if there are so many loopholes that they are paying less than 1%. Maybe shareholders and bonuses to executives should be held until the company pays 20% of the annual revenue in taxes. When the company is so profitable, then executives get bonuses and stockholders get dividends.

@randibgood

Жыл бұрын

​@@bcase5328Yes. When a supposed "billionaire" can pay $750.00 two years in a row and even pay $0.00 some years, there are TOO many loopholes and tax breaks. They should also lower the threshold for inheritance tax, heavily tax money that is "kept out of circulation", and revert back to the '70's (I think that's when it changed?) era percentages for the ultra wealthy, somewhere in the neighborhood of 70+%

@STELLASCUTENESS

Жыл бұрын

You have no idea what the tax code is, how it works, or the incentives built into it. If you did, you wouldn’t say such ludicrous things.

@liferx4343

Жыл бұрын

@@STELLASCUTENESS Why don't you enlighten us oh all knowing?? Of course you can't because there are loop holes the rich have like the SALT deduction and also borrowing against their own stock which isn't taxable. It sounds like you don't know the tax loopholes that exist for the rich or you don't want to admit to them.

@leonh619

Жыл бұрын

@@randibgood EXACTLY... I live paycheck to paycheck, make just over $30k/year, have no savings, and pay WAY more taxes than that!

just pay your taxes. quit being so damn greedy. you already are rich and live a top-notch life.

“Soft corruption” that’s a new one

How does a nation of billionaires not contribute to the tax burden shared by everyday Americans?

@chrisbarbera4121

4 ай бұрын

Cuz they don't make income.

Our government has forgotten about their constiuants. We put your where you are at. You owe us, the American people. You owe us to do your job and legislate and get to work for America.

@dianadzudza508

Жыл бұрын

In your dream….

My parents love 60 minutes news magazine

It all comes down to the inability to change or new way of thinking. No one dares to challenge the system. A lot of these politicians have self interest and short term vision We need not only a powerful leadership but also group of people who needs to support the change

@valentinanino8292

Жыл бұрын

we need an entire united states system reset so that this corruption can be dealt with and laws need to be made after to ensure this hateful crap does not happen again

Hi Lee and Paul! Just wanted to share that these crimes actually have become pretty common since the lockdowns three years ago. I've kept up with current events voraciously since March 2020. The "Why Me" question has an answer: This is the new norm until things change and we need to get more people, especially naive people to understand that. I live in a suburb of DC; I have been in DC and/or DC adjacent for 12 years and no longer go out at night. My neighborhood has severely deteriorated. It is not unusual for carjackings; gas siphoning; catalytic converter theft; and random gun assaults to occur. I wish there was a way for me to convey to both of you and your friends to understand that it has never been this bad in my lifetime (age 49). I was definitely worried about you and Paul in St. Louis. Used to love that place... just please get your friends to understand the world has changed and to look into current events for cities they are "nomading" in.

@NYyankeeboi

Жыл бұрын

Its not just DC that crime is out of control, its happening all across the country. With more and more law enforcement budgets being cut, you will be on your own, buy and gun and learn how to protect yourself and your family.

He says taxing the middle class? Oh local governments are doing plenty of that already.

@ClassWarVeteran

Жыл бұрын

Rich Man’s World kzread.info/dash/bejne/q5V2p4-IoZffYqQ.html

@isaac.anthony

Жыл бұрын

If you're getting taxed it's because you're not rich enough, or not smart enough. It's EASY to hide money and assets if you have the right accountants and lawyers, so are you dumb or wannabe rich and just aren't?

It is all greed with these people. $5000 a year is a drop in the bucket for the ultra rich millionairs. Oh so big corporation shouldn't pay into our school systems? This is wrong.

@poohbeartube

Жыл бұрын

Yes and it's so ridiculous. You're probably aware that even people who choose not to have children pay school taxes and $5000 a year for one house is common. If the 1% who make the laws wanted the corporate tax rate changed, it would be changed. Since they're not paying massive amounts of taxes, they don't bother with it so they can pretend it's an issue in the media. It's smoke and mirrors.

Some of these agencies should be investigated, they might be committing fraud

Bottom line, they pay the taxes or someone else will start up a company doing the same thing here and we stop buying that product that screws our tax system .

There are 60,000 homeless in Los Angeles right this minute! how is 1,200 tiny homes going to help these people ?

Corruption is the order of the day meanwhile we the people suffer.

This explains a great deal.

Start taxing the Execs!

The huge state taxes in New York and California are driving people to move in flock to Florida and Texas.

The 2017 tax bill eliminated essentially the 2nd story. Through BEAT and GILTI, the profit shifting to lower tax countries is gone. Also cash is no longer parked overseas primarily for US tax reasons

@ClassWarVeteran

Жыл бұрын

Rich Man’s World kzread.info/dash/bejne/q5V2p4-IoZffYqQ.html

I wonder if the CEO who said the WA income tax would cost his company $50,000 and that would stifle his business knows how absolutely stupid that claim is. $50,000 is what he pays just one, repeat just one, professional employee.

@letstalkaboutit7734

29 күн бұрын

He’d have to lay that person off to pay the tax bill

Can't tax us poor workers.we already have nothing

Or the US heavily taxes ANYTHING made in another country by a company that is stationed in the United States

Someone should send a book explaining how a fiat currency works through MMT Economics.

I hope the law passes it’s about time everyone pitches in for their part

@ryanstubbs3211

Жыл бұрын

This originally aired in 2010

Corporate taxes need to be equal between countries. We need to find another way to tax them for services and perhaps initiate a federal sales tax

@rewardilicious

Жыл бұрын

We just need to get rid of all these complicated tax codes. The best way to tax any money that gets sent or received via any financial institutions that are recorded as like 10% each way. So I pay you $100, I get taxed $10 and you get taxed $10. Easy, done. Do it for wire transfers, deposits into stock brokerage accounts, credit cards, any recorded cash purchases or sales, and crypto exchanges. Companies and rich people will naturally have more transfers so more taxes.

33:06 Just make it a requirement that politicians, once elected, have to liquidate their portfolios and buy only $QQQ, $SPY, and/or $DIA and they have to leave it there until they're out of office

I got a job, That I really LOVE, I am making more than I've ever made before. But now,... I payed for my income in taxes with almost 23% of everything I made claiming 0 and at the end of the year, I owed more, so They took it. I clamed myself at the end of the year and I STILL OWE? How fair is that?

I’m sure I would LOVE to pay the Swiss tax rate too. If only I had the money to “live and work” in Switzerland and enjoy the benefits of the US. These small countries are just poaching American money because they don’t have scale. Disgusting. Lol and that Cisco exec could use some of those profits to cover that combover.

These companies will spend more to fight against their taxes a year, then what they would have to pay in taxes every year. Come on Americans.

@randibgood

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. The price to purchase legislation is high, but it keeps their taxes low.

YES!! LEAVE THE POOR ALONE!

@ClassWarVeteran

Жыл бұрын

Rich Man’s World kzread.info/dash/bejne/q5V2p4-IoZffYqQ.html

@ClassWarVeteran

Жыл бұрын

There’s literally an entire prison industrial complex and militarized police forces specifically made for the poor.

I'm so sick and tired of people whining about paying taxes. TAXES ARE HOW WE PAY FOR THE THINGS WE WANT AND INVEST IN OUR FUTURE!

This is a mega amount of corruption. My God I cannot beleive this. Thank you 60 minutes.

Very good report,I love you guys

@ghill88

Жыл бұрын

How old is this video? Bush tax cuts? What about Trump tax cuts. Companies that move overseas. Limit the business they can do in the USA.

All tax cuts to the rich cut? 1.3 trillion dollars to the deficit? 100 billion a month? Make the rich pay! They make me sick weasling out. Make them pay!

Love the purple look Leslie! 25:55

Join Congress not because you want to help people but because you want to benefit yourself

Normally as a conservative, I’d be opposed to t this, but when I heard it would be for education, I realize we need it…

@ninjagirl226

Жыл бұрын

Hmmm…I think there’s policy changes within the education system that would drastically improve it and not cost much. Like removing the no fail policy at schools like my sister’s. She’s had only one kid come in the past month because the kids know they will pass the course even if they never show up or turn in a single assignment.

I live in Texas and we have surplus in our state with no state income tax…i would never live in a state that i have to pay state income tax it’s ridiculous

She is an amazing journalist.

waoo i learned so much front this video we need to fight again inside congress trading

How can any Nation exist without paying its bills? I favor having a flat tax. Everyone paying a fair percentage of their income. Our infrastructure, to include roads, bridges and water works systems, is falling apart. The word 'Taxes' is not a cuss word. They are essential for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

37:14 Pelosi's rage face xD

How do you tax-cut your way out of a deficit?

How do you fund government without taxes? The rich want to have there cake and eat it too

Personally, I think of the US government is really that concerned they should just cut spending as opposed to cutting taxes. If you are looking at getting rid of tax cuts and everything, perhaps US government people should stop spending so much on these programs which lots of people, including myself, don’t get to take advantage of. Only the people who are wealthy good to take advantage of the loopholes in the tax law and for me since I’m not rich, I don’t get to take advantage of those loopholes because I don’t know what they are and I don’t know how are use them. Very simple message stop spending so much money on borrowing more to continue to spend. Then maybe we can get our deficit under control but it’s gonna take 50 years or 60 years to get this deficit down under $100 million which means that the people of today like me well long since be gone. Our great grandchildren might benefit yes, spending cuts were made, but I never hear that from these people!

Good ☔🌧️ Rain Ent LLC.

Then they'll stop. Less of what need. Why not quit spending?

I'm glad you guys uploaded this, but at the same time, your posting info that's 10 years old?! Talk about being a "Day late & a dollar short"..

Rich people always threatening that it’s going to hurt their business and they pay more taxes but yet when they get a check for $14b year they’re not complaining

The problem in this country is everyone wants everything and pays nothing. When these people are old then they realized that it is always a balance of all things to rob from one and pay a hefty price for another. But the riches still need America to sell their products since no other in this world has major purchase power like Americans. We as Americans should boycott their products.

Nothing is going to matter until everybody starves to death😂😂🤣

Social security is not an entitlement for seniors....we put into that. It's an entitlement for the young

I wouldn’t mind spending high taxes on my high paycheck if we had a highly functioning and efficient government bureaucracy. The government needs to cut spending it’s insane. We’ve increased education spending 300% adjusted for inflation yet our public schools have decreased in quality with all the new tech in classrooms.

@ClassWarVeteran

Жыл бұрын

Rich Man’s World kzread.info/dash/bejne/q5V2p4-IoZffYqQ.html

@randibgood

Жыл бұрын

Probably because we are funding private schools through the voucher system. So much so that the public schools are suffering. And with some of the ridiculous restrictions being placed on curriculum because of the regressive nature of some of our politicians, we have a major shortage of teachers in those states.

The CEOs who do not want to pay for education do not deserve to keep their jobs.

We’re still having trouble getting the richest people to pay their fair share of taxes. How many billions does one person need? GREED IS UGLY.

Really really en pointe why American politics are not workong!🔥🔥🔥

This originally aired in 2010, approaching 13 years ago.

What a shame that wealthy people dont want to help.

11:30 refinancing (growing)assets, dividend income, and loans from permanent variable life insurance plans (used as income) isn't taxed as earned income.

I feel like Americans should charge and taxes to all this multi millionaire, billionaires that want to move to our of the country. Charge them hundred millions plus taxes if they want to move ..

13:54 $60B of money to be possibly taxed versus a $1T deficit. It just proves the gov't has a spending problem.

400k is not "rich". These measures always fail because they draw the line incorrectly. Tax income and capital gains over $1B at 90%, there you go.

Everyone should pay, everyone should have skin in the game.

Maybe cut spending or shrink government.

Keep showing this…

CUT INTRESST RIGHTS CUT STOCKMARKET INTRESST RIGHTS

The taxpayers know we have the best politicians that money can buy and they sure as he'll don't surve WE THE PEOPLE

Can't complain about single digit income tax. It's mandatory here in Europe and in double digits.

Interesting, how is it, that one area needs 35% of of your income to maintain its society, and other equally advanced countries only need 15%? I live in Washington, Zero Income Tax, but not mentioned is the high Sales Tax. Washington, in 2022, has a $15 Billion dollar tax surplus, and are still maneuvering ways to increase the Tax they are collecting.

@bds3919

Жыл бұрын

It's odd isn't it. Countries with nationalized health care and free college education pay so much less than we do. America is for the rich.

@B_Bodziak

Жыл бұрын

@@bds3919 The majority of the US budget goes towards military defense.

Why is it never cut government funding? Downsize? Consolidate?

That the reason we interview with them now. Or why we pop up to see them

How you can do it legally?

27:09 and none of them have debt like us

What is the point of being rich unless you can spend more money on a weekend then other people make in a lifetime?

Ugh, this was 12 years ago. Nothing will ever change.

My question is between broke and rich , where is that line really actually drawn at ?

The tax haven situation is a race to the bottom. The solution that I see would be for all countries to get together and charge the same tax rate. We couldn't even get together on a pandemic, so I have no hope.

@LynxStarAuto

Жыл бұрын

That's not possible because not all economic systems are created equal.

The social security/Medicare tax needs the cap removed

9:20. Getting your car washed by a mobile business is exorbitant spending for a government?? This is a man with very few examples on the subject.

Don't touch my Ebike

Good for him. That is a healthy attitude. And an honest one.!!!~!

Can't we just tax the rich, the middle class, and the lower class at robust and practical levels. You can't have competition, democracy, and equal opportunity if all the money stays at the top for generations.

The workers they individually not huge in income. But they gather to follow. It huge huge

Unbelievable system.

It's just pennies on my dollar to enjoy local services. Due to our current so-called media spew, cultural upbringing, and influence of peers, we hate taxation.

Years later, it still hasn't changed. In fact, Nancy Pelosi said they shouldn't have to change the rules.