That is how the media lies to us. Many people never get past the headline. Below is a headline that could make one think that the brown Muslim mayor would tax whites more than non-whites.
It adds: “The property tax system is unbalanced because assessment levels are artificially capped, so homeowners in expensive neighborhoods pay less than their fair share. The Mayor can fix this by pushing class assessment percentages down for everyone and adjusting rates up, effectively lowering tax payments for homeowners in neighborhoods like Jamaica and Brownsville while raising the amount paid in the most expensive Brooklyn brownstones.”
The document asserts that currently New York City taxes “family homes in Black and Latino neighborhoods like Jamaica, Brownsville, and Tremont more than it does in wealthier neighborhoods of the city.”
The man was being honest when he said that the more affluent neighborhoods are primarily white, which is true in New York, just as it is here in Houston.
Why are rich people so afraid of paying for the government services that they receive?
Throughout Amazon’s history, corporate tax advantages have been essential to the company’s rapid growth and increasing market dominance, as well as the exploding wealth of the e-commerce giant’s top executives. This report documents the additional ways that Amazon and its executives unfairly benefit from a rigged federal tax system that has long prioritized large corporations and wealthy executives over regular people.
In the early years, Amazon made a deliberate choice to avoid state sales taxes that fund our schools, health care, and other vital public services. For decades, that choice gave Amazon a crucial, unfair advantage against local bookstores, toy stores, and other smaller retailers.
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), passed by congressional Republicans and signed by President Trump, only accelerated the concentration of economic and political power among the ultra-rich, while leaving ordinary working people far behind.
When Trump first ran, he boasted about not paying income tax.
