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If a multi-billionaire hates taxes so much, why not just stop making money? I don't understand why avarice is so important when you have more money than can be
by Maursault 4y ago
If a multi-billionaire hates taxes so much, why not just stop making money? I don't understand why avarice is so important when you have more money than can be spent in two lifetimes. Taxes are a portion of income and generally are not more than annual income. As long as there is a net gain, even if it is smaller than it would be tax-free, why not be a good guy instead of an asshole? We really need to make it astoundingly unprofitable for billionaires to skirt taxes because its billionaires driving up everyone else's taxes. If cops can seize over 50K asset forfeitures every year from non-billionaires and non-millionaires and non hundred-thousandaires, then surely we can tolerate seizing nearly all of the merely the top 50 billionaires' wealth, and leave them with a token $200M each to scrape-by.
Please stop voting for candidates that are members of the party that's primary purpose is to prop up the uber rich and make them richer, faster, at the expense of everyone else. The 2nd Amendment isn't ever going anywhere, and you will never, never ever advance economically voting against your personal economic interests. If everyone voted only in their personal economic interests, employment would skyrocket, crime and poverty would plummet, and the economy would boom. The uber rich aren't stupid with their votes, 99.9% of the other members of their party are.
- atonse 4y agoThe same kinds of people that aren't satisfied with making $5m, and want $50m, or $500m, or $5bn, can't psychologically fathom letting go of a single penny to anyone else, whether it's their competitors or the government. That's the problem. To many of them it's a score.
- MikePlacid 4y agoI have a “living experience” in a country where (potential) billionaires were not allowed to make money. Believe me, you do not want to be there.
- Maursault 4y agoNot what I suggested, only that once you have billions of dollars, there are better things to do with one's time than obsesses about relatively petty amounts. One can only live for so long and only spend so much, so it simply isn't rational to waste any time whatsoever attempting to increase wealth at such a minuscule amount to what you already have. $132M represents 0.2% of Balmer's $58.3B, and he's that much closer to death for having wasted any time whatsoever for such an absurdly small gain, relatively speaking.