The typically arrogant liberal comedian Bill Maher finally took the red pill and realized that much of the socialist bloviating against the bourgeoisie on the issue of taxes is a load of bunk.
Welcome to real life, Bill!
Maher stipulated during the April 24 edition of Real Time that he “wouldn’t mind” the almost 60 percent of his earnings he pays to the government “if Bernie Sanders would stop saying the rich don’t pay taxes.” While Maher jested that he was “sure the super-rich with their army of accountants and corporate loopholes get away with murder," he blurted out that "us regular rich people pay a sh*t ton of taxes!” He claimed about 60 percent of his income goes to taxes.
He’s not wrong, all jokes aside (no pun intended). The CATO Institute released a study April 10 finding that the top ten percent of income earners pay “more than 60 percent of all taxes and 72 percent of income taxes, shares that have been increasing over time.” It’s all rallies and cocktail parties for the uber lefties in Washington, D.C., Wall Street and Hollywood who play footsie with socialist politics until the tax man comes around to take a massive bite out of their proverbial keisters.
Maher’s wallet is no exception. After all, CATO concluded that the U.S. currently boasts “the most progressive tax system in the developed world, driven primarily by high federal income tax rates and large exemptions for lower-income taxpayers.” In fact, concluded CATO, “The lowest-income 20 percent of earners, measured by adjusted family cash income, face average tax rates that are either negative or close to zero.” So much for the ludicrous, evergreen allegation that the rich don’t pay their fair share!
Bill Maher takes the red pill on economics lol. pic.twitter.com/KkV1AfGtfZ
— Joe Vazquez (@JV3MRC) April 27, 2026
Maher then called out the ironically named “Democratic Socialists” in local and federal leadership, lambasting them for “talking about socialism like we don’t already have a lot: Social Security, unemployment, Medicare, nutritional assistance, Medicaid, Obamacare, disability, housing subsidies.” Again, retorted Maher, “Not against it. Just the same question: How can you be soaking the rich and failing the poor so badly?”
Here’s one answer: The whole premise of progressive taxation could in fact just be an ongoing scam to justify feeding the bottomless pit of government’s fiscal profligacy like a morbidly obese slob like Augustus Gloop stuffing his face endlessly at the end of a chocolate assembly line.
