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Great, let them go. Florida is terrible to live in because of the wealthy nimbys. It will make Seattle even better.

Seattle has many vacant office buildings, and Amazon is shifting thousands of its workers to Bellevue due to the taxes. Starbucks moved its HQ to Nashville.

The top 1% pay 40% of federal income taxes.

Who are you gonna tax when they leave?

That sounds like a confident and easily verifiable claim. Care to provide evidence?

Yup. Here's the google prompt:

"what percentage of federal taxes do the top 1% pay?"

and the response:

"38.4% of all federal individual income taxes."

This is obviously the top 1% wage earners, not the top 1% wealt-holders (aka the 1% richest).

1. wealth != income. The IRS does not measure one's wealth.

2. income comes from many sources, not just wages. Capital gains taxes, for example.

Exactly, so when asdff said good riddance to the wealthy, mentioning how much tax the top 1% wage earners brings in is irrelevant.

Top 1% wage earners is not the top 1% wealthiest.

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