Let’s discuss raising us some revenue without hurting the little people.
Didn’t make it past that. Raise any ones taxes and it will in turn affect “the little people”
Well, you have a point. But would Warren Buffett really fire someone if his taxes quadrupled? Or Bill Gates? For people like these, money is not something they need to buy groceries or even their next mansion or yacht. It's a way of keeping score, to see who is ahead on the “Forbes richest” list. Or would Barbra Streisand fire her staff if she had to pay a few million more in taxes? Would you want to work for her anyway? Would the Yale endowment's janitors suffer if we taxed their assets at 10%? Doubtful. Besides, how many people work there anyway? I'm not talking about taxing the clothing store or the guy who installs windows, or the building contractor. The guy who owns the plastics factory or the small manufacturer with 500 employees is probably already a "C" corporation or can become one in short order.
The problem with the conversation the country has had on taxes is that the thinking is stuck in a rut. Conservatives have golden opportunity to change to conversation. The Left says everybody needs to sacrifice, right? By saying this they have fallen into a trap that was explained by Saul Alinsky. Let’s make them live up to their own standards. Let’s talk about taxes on the left’s wealthy fat-cats. let’s talk about the obscene wealth found in tax sheltered foundations and endowments. Let’s talk about taxes on entertainment like movie tickets and CDs. There was a tax on movie receipts back in the 1950s to pay off the war debt.
I’ll bet once you begin to think about it you could come up with some good tax ideas of your own.