Why Do The Top Hedge Funds Not Pay More Taxes?

Why is it that the top Hedge Funds see they're income bracket get slashed from 39% to 37% under the new GOP tax plan while the top 99% of income goes STRAIGHT too the upper .1%?

Doesn't it figure that hedge fund billionaires at Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, Amazon, UBS, RBC, Nomura and Wells Fargo can spare a couple dollars while working class Americans can't even afford medication for mental health services (ADD, AIDS, Anorexia, Depression, etc.) and vital medications?

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Your first two paragraphs don't make any sense. What does "Top 99% of income" mean? income generated by the hedge funds? Income from the hedge fund employees? Income of investors in the hedge funds? Not one of the companies you mentioned is a hedge fund. Do you know what a hedge fund is? Lots of hedge funds are funded by pension funds and funds that are for the benefit of the working class. If a hedge fund takes a small tax cut to be able to fund the pension of a middle school teacher in Idaho is that a bad thing??

 
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