Do wealthy people pay lots of taxes.

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Yeah, Brian, I'm super excited about this one because I think this is true for you, but

I grew up in a household where the common thought was, you know, the wealthy people, the rich

people, that'll pay any taxes.

Taxes are those things that are left for all of the other folks to pay.

And I feel like there's even some of that in popular media today that like certain people

your stories about, oh, well, so and so doesn't pay any taxes.

And so it seems like it's a common thought that the more success that you have, the more

black box type access you have to things to get you out of paying any taxes at all.

Yeah, and this is one of those topics.

I typically try to defer this as much as possible because it might swerve into politics and

we don't do politics on the show.

I feel like that we just got back from podcast movement and I felt so bad for the presenters,

but like the third session on the first day was adding politics to your show.

And I'd probably say 65 to 70% of the room actually got up and left.

And I don't think it was because they were a different party than the speakers on the

state. I just think that we all get so tired of the politicization of everything.

So I'm going to try to navigate this, but here's why we have to cover this is because

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