Bill Maher calls out AOC's 'Tax the Rich' dress: 'Let's not lie' and say the rich don't pay taxes

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Bill Maher's defense of low tax rates for the rich falls flat with his 'Real Time' panel

HBO "Real Time" host Bill Maher's critiques of a "tax the rich" dress worn to the Met Gala did not go over well with his panel.Maher said that in New York City, the "richest 65,000 New Yorkers, out of eight million people, pay 61% of taxes."So it's not like we don't tax the rich at all," Maher said."We've been slashing taxes on the rich for for fifty years, though," sex columnist Dan Savage noted."The rich are richer now than they've ever been,"…