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Absolutely! How vindictive to think otherwise. It's bullshit, but I can understand the "we're going to take your money because we can improve society with it" a
by sportanova 11y ago
Absolutely! How vindictive to think otherwise. It's bullshit, but I can understand the "we're going to take your money because we can improve society with it" argument. But I can't understand the "you have too much, so let's take it and burn it" mentality
- chefkoch 11y agoThe point is that there are other good ways to spend the additional tax revenue like education, sience, infrastracture that doesn't directly benefit the poor but everyone. It's just unfair that Warren buffet is paying a lower percentage of his income than his secretary.
- sportanova 11y agoExcept that he's not - Buffet's corporation is taxed, and then it gives money to him in the form of dividends and then he's taxed. He's paying taxes twice, once at the corporate rate and again at the personal rate