401 Billion News Today

Have $660 billion in bills to pay, but only $401 billion on hand to pay them. if the u.s. paid the interest on treasury securities, federal salaries, social security benefits, et cetera, it could end up leaving unemployment insurance, military retirement benefits, pandemic relief for state and local governments unpaid. and to put a finer point on the hell that awaits us, if october 15th is indeese the day borrowing authority runs out, the u.s. government could have only $27 billion to pay $43 bi...

Those 25 people saw their worth rise a collective $401 billion, from 2014 to 2018. they paid a total of $13.6 billion in federal income taxes in those five years, the irs data shows. thats a staggering sum, but it amounts to a true tax rate of only 3.4%. and many of them have paid much less than 3.4% in some years. propublicas analysis continues, quote, by the end of 2018, the 25 were worth $1.1 trillion. for comparison, it would take 14 14.3 million ordinary merge wage earners put together to e...

Propublica contacted jeff bezos and other billionaires in their tax reporting. jeff bezos did not dispute the accuracy of propublicas data, which shows that in some years, jeff bezos and elon musk and george soros paid no income taxes at all. zero. because that is what the current tax code allows them to pay. these single creepiest item in the data, is that in 2011 back when jeff bezos was only worth 18 billion dollars, he even claims and received a 4000 dollar tax credit for his children. propu...