I know I sure do. Mock, that is.
If you want to pay more in taxes, just do this, anybody can do it. The millionaires just want to look good by saying this.
Just do the following to pay more! No need to announce it!
How do you make a contribution to reduce the debt?
There are two ways for you to make a contribution to reduce the debt:
At Pay.gov, you can contribute online by credit card, debit card, PayPal, checking account, or savings account.
You can write a check payable to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, and, in the memo section, notate that it’s a gift to reduce the debt held by the public. Mail your check to:
Attn Dept G
Bureau of the Fiscal Service
P. O. Box 2188
Parkersburg, WV 26106-2188
I mock him.
Because there is nothing to stop him from writing a big annual extra check to his beloved government. In reality, what he is truly advocating is that he wants his beloved leftist government to confiscate more of everyone else’s money to waste on whatever, and, maybe spend some of it on his priorities - not mine.
Step 1: Billionaires ask to be taxed more.
Step 2: Congress raises taxes on billionaires.
Step 3: Billionaires set up tax shelters to avoid new taxes.
Everybody’s happy.
Gov Huckabee had the solution for this. While governor of Arkansas he created the TaxMeMore fund. There was a line on his state income tax specifically asking for more tax money and it would go into the TaxMeMore fund. This way it would be easy to track how much money was contributed to the fund. Guess what? It wasn’t much. As I recall only a few of the leftist legislatures that were pushing for this contributed to the fund and it wasn’t much.
We need a national TaxMeMore fund...
I’ve also heard Ken Langone (co-founder of HomeDepot) talk about this. He said why should he give more money to the government. He has huge endowments and charities, has built hospitals etc.. He said he is far better to allocate his charitable dollars than the government is. Does anyone (even a leftist) disagree?
(paraphrasing Henny Youngman): There are a lot of things in life that make no sense. Take my taxes... ...please.
Certainly Bernie Sanders has no need for three homes or Elizabeth Warren for her millions. When are they going to spread their wealth around? As Orwell said so well... “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”.
Yo billionaires. If you want to pay higher taxes, just write the damn check and STFU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And, yet, again, the BIG questions remain to be unasked and unanswered:
- FOR what?
- by what AUTHORITY?
Any ‘debate’ beyond is moot until rectified.
Course, nobody on the (R)N(C) side of the Uniparty dare even THINK along those lines either...might start to expect more than platitudes.
At best, this is a feel-good measure to those potential voters who have lower incomes (and who might be inclined to vote for progressive Democrats.)
At worst, it's a cynical way for the federal government to attempt to increase its coffers--though there's no proof that such a "wealth tax" would necessarily accomplish the goal of move revenue. Even if the tax successfully raised government revenue, any trickle-down would be minuscule.
Mass prosperity requires economic progress, which requires a pro-capitalistic political program, which requires rationality, natural rights, including private property rights, capital accumulation, and technological progress and advances.
The total abolition of the personal and corporate income taxes and of the inheritance tax is an essential feature of a pro-capitalist political program. It is required by the individual’s right to his own property. In addition, progress toward the abolition of these taxes helps to create the conditions required for economic progress, by increasing economic incentives, and the ability to save, both of which serve to promote capital accumulation, and thus a rising productivity of labor and rising average real wage rates.
Misunderstanding of Macro Economics. The more Capitol that is taken out of the private sector, the smaller it is; also everyone tends to hoard Capitol when ‘the rich’ have to pay more.
Less commerce; less job opportunity; less wealth for others who want to invest in the private sector; eventually less tax revenue collected because there are fewer wealthy individuals. But more Government power.
If one wants to pay taxes, go ahead, but forcing everyone else to pay a higher tax rate because you think “raise my taxes” is an economic boon for the government is an uneducated view of how private sector Macro Economics works.
He can pay more taxes, if he wants to, nobody is stopping him.
The problem is that they are all talk, and ultimately they want the rest of us to pay more taxes, while they find every loophole, because they are rich.