...maybe if the rich people paid their fair share... both in taxes AND in wages... people wouldn't be living in poverty... cutting back on senseless wars could help too...
So tax the company based on profit margin. Corporations being considered people while not being held under the same scrutiny is one of the biggest problems.
I fucking paid my taxes to protect me from poverty if I became disabled... little did I know that disability only pays 11k/year and if you have more than $2k in the bank or in valuables, they take away your food and Medicaid. That $2k asset limit hasn't changed since 1974. We can't fix a vehicle on that, we can't pay our rent, we can't survive on max $2k at any given time. If adjusted for inflation, it would be $13k. That's enough to survive on.
I'm of the opinion that people making less than 50,000 a year should only be paying like 5% in taxes and FICA/SS. And anyone under 150,000 taxed at 10%. Because the people making above that can afford to pay the typical 20% or more, but less than 150k is not all that much these days.
And then the mega-rich need to be paying way more than they do. Not just income tax, but capital gains tax and tax on the total value of their assets above 5 million (don't @ me with this number, it's an example) or whatever.