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There are rich people, and then there are the ‘one-time millionaires’

Por: The Boston Globe Business September 22, 2022

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For more than a month, the campaign championing a special tax on the wealthy has blasted TV airwaves with a simple message: “They pay less and we pay more.”“They” are the people who earn more than $1 million a year, of a businessman boarding a private jet. The implication is that they can afford Question 1, a ballot initiative that would create a 4 percent surcharge on these millionaires.Yet the , which debuted last week, paints a... + full article



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