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DESCRIPTION:Trump, we're told, paid just $750 in Federal taxes in 2016. You, I'm sure, 
 have paid hefty rent since taking up residence in the Bay Region. How do we 
 reconcile these two objective facts? And why would we try?\n\nTry this on 
 for size. You were born. Trump was born. Everything you've done, short of 
 stealing, added to the good life of others. Every deal you brokered, every 
 tool you used, every basket of laundry your hung on the clothes line did 
 good for someone (don't exclude yourself!). And it's been the same with 
 Trump. Every steak he sold, every room he rented out, every swing of a golf 
 club he has enabled has done good for someone. Well, if everything we do 
 does good for someone, why should we send down the taxman to tax away part 
 of that good? If we want more housing, why tax carpenters and architects 
 for designing and building housing? And if we want more good food to be 
 eaten, why do we tax farmers for growing it, grocers for selling it, cooks 
 for wok-ing it? That's just dumb, don't you think, come to think of it? 
 Looked at that way that $750 Trump paid seems about right . . . maybe even 
 $750 too much.\n\nBut now let's start at the beginning again. You were 
 born. Trump was born. Born where? Planet Earth. Which nobody made, but 
 which everybody needs in order to do stuff that's good for someone. So why 
 should some people get away with charging other people to use the earth? 
 Did those landowners make the earth? No. How can some own the earth into 
 which we're all born?\nHow come you're paying hefty location rent to 
 someone to use the earth of the Bay Region that is everyone's home? Maybe 
 the rent of land ought to be the tax you pay to society for having used for 
 a while something everybody has a birthright in.\n\nYou're invited to a 
 teach-in about this very topic. It's free. It's upsetting. It's 
 mind-blowing. But it's not out of this world. Click.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/08/18838855.php
SUMMARY:Reconciling Trump's $750 in taxes with SF's high rents: a tutorial
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