The reporter is right, without knowing more numbers we don’t know if that was high or low.
Why should he pay more in taxes just because he makes a lot of money?
Call me crazy, but I think we should be grateful to any old duffer who makes so much money after age 70 that he’s paid in $655M in tax.
Cause what ever he’s making, it’s employing people who are supporting their families and also paying taxes.
He could just quit making money and play golf until he dies.
Why should anyone be taxed at a higher percentage rate than another? To me this is not fair (and I'm not anywhere in the same universe as the top one percent of wage earners).
I'm one of the 53 percent that has paid income tax for the last 48 years. I even paid tax when I made 65 cents per hour for a 40 hour week. Russia rebounded from communism by passing a flat tax, why not us. Of course I would really prefer the Fair Tax.