Kim Kardashian Made $12 Million Last Year & Paid Barely Any Taxes

[elehhhhna]

Kim Kardashian Made $12 Million Last Year & Paid Barely Any Taxes

Are you angry about Kim Kardashian? Are you angry about the rich not paying enough taxes? This is your jam! The Courage Campaign has launched a new commercial that shames Kim for making $12 million dollars in one year alone and getting taxed only one percent more than everyone else. It begins with the classiest of quotes from Kim, which goes as follows: "Being on TV has changed my life because… (pause) I get lots of free stuff!" Gross.

http://jezebel.com/5869721/california-ads-urge-to-tax-kim-k

[muntrv]

1. The republicans, the party of Kim Kardashian.

[barbtries]

2. one of my fb friends

actually a childhood friend of my daughter's, posted this and dissed it. and then added get out there, it's there, just go get it. clueless. i wouldn't have thought that. but i would have been wrong.

[Egalitariat]

3. I'm not buying it. How do they know? What do they mean by "1% more than everyone else"? What does

"everyone else" pay?

Lots of red flags to set of a BS-meter in that article.

[BOHICA12]

4. Let's run some figures

She paid - $1,240,000
Average CA Resident - $4,371

Factor difference - 2800% greater

Now Kim probably spent another $9,000,000 on being a Kardashian - employing a bunch, a pant load, a pile of folks to keep her being a Kardashian.

If she had to ship Uncle Sam another $1,240,000 - would it have been spent creating the employment that it would in her hands?

Note - 3,500,000,000,000 Budget - 300,000,000 population - Share of the Burden for each person $11,666 -

The example corporations need to follow is Kim's - she spend her dead presidents with abandon.

[aletier_v]

5. Amazingly flawed analysis

Are you sure you're not a republican?

KK - $1.24m / $12 million = 10.33%.

Average CA resident - $4372/48K = 9.1%

[dawg]

6. This sounds fishy to me.

It is misleading at the very least. The video shows Kim doing her "promotional" schtick. But all that would be taxable at ordinary rates. She must have made most of her money through investments (family money) or a large capital gain. Otherwise, her tax rate would be much higher.

[dawg]

7. No. Wait. I'm replying to myself ...

Even capital gains would be more than that. She would need to be making most of her money from tax free municipal bonds.

Unless that video is only talking about the California state income tax?

I'll bet it is. Isn't there a proposal for a surtax on millionaires in California? That's what this is about.

Kim's probably paying upwards of 20% in federal income taxes.

[hfojvt]

9. that's what I thought too - California taxes, not Federal taxes

kinda misleading too, to say "barely any taxes"

[marmar]

8. What exactly does Kim Kardashian do? She's famous for being famous, like Paris Hilton.

nt

[customerserviceguy]

10. She does one useful thing

She embarasses reich wing fundies who talk about the "defense of marriage".

[IamK]

12. she has a large butt ... n/t

[Zalatix]

15. And I don't deny! n/t

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[Missy Vixen]

11. She's probably making even more this year

Her sham of a wedding threw off an estimated $16 million alone, and the groom is not entitled to any of the cash, BTW, according to their prenuptial agreement.

The only way Kardashian does not have a soapbox is if people stop watching her show, buying things she endorses, etcetera.

[Gabi Hayes]

13. looks like some new DU3 recruits at this site:

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/kim-kardashian-net-worth/#

some very 'entertaining' comments.....

[Zalatix]

14. I'd rather the Courage Campaign target the Waltons or the Kochs

Kim Kardashian is on a waiting list to get ON my waiting list of peeves.

[aquart]

16. Kim Kardashian is rich. But she's not WEALTHY.

We need to keep that in mind.