Right. The dont pay taxes, the income earners do.
Exactly.
Teresa Heinz could not care less about income taxes.
Teresa Heinz inherited her $550 million fortune at the time of her husband's death tax free. John Kerry married into that $550 million fortune after her husband's death tax free.
There is no spousal inheritance tax and there is no gigolo tax.
Income taxes apply to individuals who produce income. However, the parasitic super-rich such as John Kerry and Teresa Heinz produce very little income themselves as a percentage of their total wealth. Therefore, even a 95% income tax would not affect their lifestyles in the least. At the end of the day, they are still sitting on top of 550 million tax free dollars.
A 100% income tax on Kerry's $154,700 per year U.S. Senate salary comes out as 0.028 percent of the Heinz-Kerry total wealth.
For a family that has a net worth of $200,000 in savings and home equity, that is the equivalent of 56 bucks.
The Kerrys and Kennedys will gladly trade the minuscule amount of their total wealth lost to increasing income taxes in order to label a $200,000 a year, two-income couple as "The Rich" in order to demagogue the votes of the least productive members of society into political power for themselves.