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More than 40 of the nation's millionaires have joined Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength to ask President Obama to discontinue the tax breaks established for them during the Bush administration, as Salon reports.
Originally posted by Night Star
If I were rich, I can't imagine ever being so greedy that I would not want to be taxed more. The lower and middle class have paid way more than their fair share.edit on 19-11-2010 by Night Star because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by projectvxn
reply to post by Night Star
I'm not getting this train of logic at all.
Just because you're rich does not automatically make you greedy. Greed is not necessary to success in life.
I will never understand why people think that the only way people succeed in life is through being greedy.
Hard work does pay off, so does education. Some people put in the work and reap great rewards for it, and they are entitled to keep it. Why we assume people wanting to keep their money is tantamount to greed, and should be punished through taxation is beyond me.
Not saying that all rich people are greedy, but many are in my opinion. When we are talking millions of dollars, to me that is more money that any one person could ever need or want. If you need every penny from your millions of dollars to make you happy... to me that's greed. I would have no problem sharing my wealth, donating to the poor and needy etc. I could go without a 14kt toilet seat or a house big enough to get lost in.
Originally posted by poet1b
God forbid the filthy rich should have to pay their fair share of taxes.
Why pay taxes? Why pay for anything?
Humanity has become completely and totally morally bankrupt, as the defenders of greed on this thread have clearly proven.
If you don't want to pay taxes in America, move to a different county where you can get a better deal.
Isn't that how markets are supposed to work?
We need to return to the tax rates of the sixties, rather than continuing to borrow huge amounts of debt to leave to our children.
Ah, but the morally bankrupt among us don't care what debt we leave to our children, or do they bother to pay attention to the fact that the people who pushed tax cuts for the rich, are also the people who borrowed huge amounts of money in the name of U.S. tax payers.
Originally posted by projectvxn
reply to post by Night Star
Not saying that all rich people are greedy, but many are in my opinion. When we are talking millions of dollars, to me that is more money that any one person could ever need or want. If you need every penny from your millions of dollars to make you happy... to me that's greed. I would have no problem sharing my wealth, donating to the poor and needy etc. I could go without a 14kt toilet seat or a house big enough to get lost in.
Fine, then share YOUR wealth. Let others do so as they please. But taxation is not charity. And charity is a personal choice, forcing charity is theft.
2nd, who are you to tell others how much the 'need'? If you have enough money that you couldn't possibly spend it yourself, what do most of these people do? Donate it, invest it in to other ventures, create businesses. They do spread their wealth, but they do it out of their own volition.
Government can only take that same money and waste it. And that all they do. It's the reason we're in the mess we're in. Am I saying that the tax code is fair? No. Nothing can be fair with 80,000 pages. What we need is a flat, fair tax across the board, and a government funded enough to do their Constitutional duty and NO MORE.
We are all Americans and we are all guaranteed equal protection under the law. Taxing people just because they make more than you do isn't NOT fairness under the law, it's class warfare.