I'm a millionaire living in Washington. I'm happy to pay more in taxes — it helps everybody. [AWFUL barf alert]

Business Insider ^ | 3/8/2026 | Jordan Pandy

[simpson96]

(snip) I've been at both ends of the spectrum, financially.

Becoming a millionaire is definitely not as simple as pulling yourself up and just doing the hard work. There's so much else that factors in — including a lot of luck. I got lucky.

It makes me mad when people say, "Well, I did it, so you can."(snip)

People should be able to get wealthy — there's nothing wrong with that. The thing is, just pay your fair share of taxes. That's the bottom line.(snip)

It's just a healthier way of structuring society than holding people down and taxing people into poverty, while people at the very high end are not contributing their share.(snip)

The new legislation in Washington is a 9.9% tax on income — not under stocks or anything — over $1 million a year starting in 2028, and then the first payments would be in 2029.

It's only less than 1% of people in Washington state who would be subject to this.

I recognize that as you gain more wealth, you keep looking around the corner saying, "Oh, if I had more, I could do this. I don't want to lose any of my money because I'm already looking at this new thing."

I believe it is a syndrome of excessive wealth disorder. (snip)

I just believe that there is excessive wealth, and it's getting worse — it's only going to get worse in very quick fashion.

Our inequality is so drastic. (snip)

We can see the impact of the excessive wealth inequality that's happening in our society, and it's very dangerous for all of us.(snip)

I'm just passionate about helping the people who want to do well.

It's just the right thing to do.

[DennisR]

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[jonrick46]

You can’t give food to a pig and expect that will be enough. A pig will eat until you have no more food to give. You can’t give enough taxes to a pig. A pig wants all the money you have until you have no more to give. The wealthy had better understand that a pig is not their friend.

[minnesota_bound]

What exactly is your ‘fair share’ of what ‘someone else’ has worked for?
- Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell Quotes
@ThomasSowell
It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who got us off the ground, not the Federal Aviation Administration. It was Henry Ford who ended the isolation of millions of Americans by making the automobile affordable, not Ralph Nader.

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Those who have helped the poor the most have not been those who have gone around loudly expressing “compassion” for the poor, but those who found ways to make industry more productive and distribution more efficient, so that the poor of today can afford things that the affluent of yesterday could only dream about.

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“Waste is not just in the billions spent, but in the opportunities lost when that money is taken from people who could have used it better.”
Thomas Sowell

“Nothing is easier, or more
emotionally satisfying, than
blaming high prices on those who
charge them, rather than on
those who cause them.”
—Thomas Sowell

“One of the sad signs of our times is that
we have demonized those who produce,
subsidized those who refuse to produce,
and canonized those who complain. “
Thomas Sowell

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
Thomas Sowell

“When I was growing up. We were taught the stories of people whose inventions and scientific discoveries had expanded the lives of millions of other people.
Today, students are being taught to admire those who complain, denounce and demand.”
Thomas Sowell

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“Let me offer you my definition of social justice:
I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn.
Do you disagree?
Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?”

~ Walter Williams

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DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
Dear middle class Americans,
When Democrats were in power, they passed laws to make you report your $600 Venmo transactions and hired 87,000 IRS agents to hunt you down

When Republicans are in power, they passed laws so that you have No Tax on Tips and No Tax on Overtime

I hope you wake up and realize that the Democrat party hates you, and Republicans want you to succeed

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“Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.”
Walter E. Williams

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Keep voting Democrat... One day they will restrict your freedoms, restrict your history and restrict your safety. All in the name of professional victims that don’t understand the consequences of their ignorance.

Ronald Regan 1987

“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
- Ronald Reagan

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“At the core of Liberalism is the spoiled child – miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.”

P. J. O’Rourke