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You earn $1MM per year. That means either a) you spend way too much or b) you actually would be, even at an 80% tax rate, 'super rich'. I assume you live in an
by voynich61 11y ago
You earn $1MM per year. That means either a) you spend way too much or b) you actually would be, even at an 80% tax rate, 'super rich'. I assume you live in an area where housing is expensive? That's a luxury you're paying for.
Of course people who already have large sums of wealth should be highly taxed as well. But you cannot tell me that the state taking 50% of the income of someone who makes a million a year is too much, right?
Edit: downvote storm! When did HN become /pol/?
- poikniok 11y agoAnd you are a leech my friend, at least this man provides some service to the world, unlike you ...
- voynich61 11y ago1) We have no idea what this person does. He could be a tobacco company executive (or substitute some position you find immoral). 2) You have no idea what I do.
- maratd 11y agoIt doesn't matter what you or he does. We don't tax people based on how much we like them?
- voynich61 11y agomaratd: We live in a society where money is allocated with little regards to justice. Of course it doesn't matter what SlowComputer does. Agnostic to his occupation, the law should assist the poor by shaving a portion off the exorbitant sums SlowComputer makes yearly.
- dang 11y agoPersonal attacks are not allowed on HN. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't.
- JackFr 11y ago> You earn $1MM per year. That means that someone valued my time, ability and labor enough to pay me for it. That is, the exchange took place because given the circumstance of my employer, my time, ability and labor were worth more to them than $1MM. I was just able to capture the $1MM portion. The idea assertion 'I spend too much' absent any context is as meaningless as the assertion that 'the government spends too much.'
- voynich61 11y agoThere are myriad ways to make obscene sums without doing anything for the world, as there are myriad ways to make an incredible impact while making relatively little. PS: the 'spend too much' situation is the one where the poster spends $500,000 on Bengal Tigers and blow.
- JackFr 11y agoI seem to have missed the parent, and a couple of siblings. Yikes. So scratch the 'absent any context'. Context was there I missed it.