Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year. Now every public school student is going to get free lunch

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Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year. Now every public school student is going to get free lunch.
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Students in Massachusetts will get free lunch and breakfast at school thanks to a new 4% tax put on people who earn more than $1 million.

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I'm pretty sure at an 80% rate the millionaires would just spend the rate moving, out of state or out of country depending on how far reaching it was.

And nothing of value was lost...

Like, oh no, what would a state do without their money hoarding exploiters that alredy contribute less than the bare minimum???
And worse - if everyone decided to make these laws, where will the poor millionaires escape to then???

Oh, won't someone think of the millionaires!!!11

Oh look, someone else who doesn't understand how progressive tax brackets work. Their effective tax rate wouldn't be 80%, only income above a certain (very high) number would be taxed at 80%.

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