[GQuagmire]

What is wrong with these people?

[Moonman62]

What is wrong with these people?

Nothing's wrong. They know they have the lawyers and accountants that will keep them from paying higher taxes. They know the ultimate goal is to raise taxes on the middle class. People who will not have the means to avoid them.

[Puppage]

Millionaires from Mass. join call to raise their tax rates

Actions speak louder than words. The face of MA millionaires, John Kerry docks his yacht in Rhode Island...WHY? Because the taxes are too high in MA.

[tomkat]

[6SJ7]

You can bet Villers isn’t even checking off the voluntary hight tax rate on his Mass tax forms. He’s just an attention whore who wants bragging rights at the next cocktail party.

[CitizenUSA]

These people who apparently want to pay more can send whatever they want, whenever they want. They are either insane, or they have other motives. What possible motives?

Maybe they are spiteful, evil people who see this as a way to harm competitors or simply other rich people in general? Some people are like that. When they see someone who has more than them, they want to destroy it.

Maybe these people actually stand to gain by changes in the tax rate? I’m no expert, but it seems possible one could make quite a bit of money by shorting dividend paying stocks. Maybe they simply have other investments that could improve if money is pulled from equities?

Or maybe they’re just insane...

Just for the record, here’s the link:

https://www.pay.gov/paygov/forms/formInstance.html?agencyFormId=23779454

It really is quite simple to send the government more money!

[Son House]

They don’t understand the unfair money grab by government is ruining our economy. Leaving fewer jobs and opportunity.

[Son House]

Villers went on to earn degrees from Harvard and MIT and to cofound Computervision

Also no appreciation for the US Constitution, that allows for every individual to live up to their full potential. No where else in history has this happened so many times. Only in America, under the US Constitution.

[tnlibertarian]

The US tax code's top income tax rate is 35 percent

while his secretary pays 35.8 percent

If the top marginal rate is 35%, how does his secretary, or anybody, have a 35.8% effective tax rate?

[Son House]

To the Millionaires from Massachusetts, it's none of your business what other folks pay in taxes. Pay more on your own if that's your prerogative.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I guess that it would be too much to ask for Phil to just quietly send all of the money he don’t want to the U.S. Government without having to make a big production number out of it. No one is stopping him from doing that. Just shut up and send the check, Phil!

[taildragger]

Computervision? Really? Man did that CAD software suck

Go back to France, maybe they can use you at CATIA, another FUBAR package...

[Mr. Peabody]

Now that Villers has already benefited from low capital gains tax he will increase it for those on their way up.

[andyk]

Hmm. No mention of what his taxable income is.

[Lancey Howard]

Philippe Villers was a little boy in 1940..

And he's a selfish old scumbag now.
Get out your checkbook and write a check, Phil. Make it out to "US Treasury". How hard could that be?

[Lancey Howard]

[upcountryhorseman]

They should send the IRS a check and shut up about it!

[ArrogantBustard]

What is wrong with these people?

They're suffering from "kleptomania by proxy" ... they want the government to steal from you.

If they were serious about paying more, they'd simply write a check payable to "Treasury of the United States", for whatever amount they want to pay beyond the taxes they currently owe.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” Villers is one of a handful ....”

Yeah, I believe THAT : )