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It goes the other way around too. There are billionaires in favor of increased taxes on billionaires.
by Rapzid 4y ago
It goes the other way around too. There are billionaires in favor of increased taxes on billionaires.
- mc32 4y agoAnd the IRS allows you to contribute as much as you prefer to the treasury. It's voluntary and no one is compelling you. So that group of billionaires who think the government can use their money more efficiently than they can in order to advance American society are absolutely free to do so! Go them! They don't need the government to compel them. They can form their own Philgubernatorial group -set their own donation rules and taxation (donation) bands and percentages and come tax season give it to the feds.
- Rapzid 4y agoHow do you know that don't? Really though, they shouldn't. That's pissing in the ocean on an individual level, and the government doesn't run it's budget off rando Treasury donations. They are not just advocating more taxes on themselves but on the very wealthy in general. A systemic change in taxation. These same people likely also donate a huge amount of money to charities and etc. On an individual basis it's easier to draw a line between funds donated and outcomes. > They don't need the government to compel them. Do they? Do you? Why not just make the government a charity then.
- daenz 4y agoI've never understood this either. It's like they only want it to happen if its forced on everyone, which is the opposite of the social altruism that they are claiming to advocate for.
- Rapzid 4y agoI mean, that's the great thing about the rule of law right? That we agree to do stuff together that we might not individually? > It's like they only want it to happen if its forced on everyone Well if we take a law to mean "forced on everyone" that's really the definition of "it to happen".