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Originally posted by Hwed
On the other hand, if you stop confiscating their money, the rich will create new businesses, new jobs, and improve the life of everyone.
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They wouldn't have the money if it weren't for the historic and current sacrifices made on a daily basis by the average American. The idea that every dollar collected is somehow all because of you and therefore any taken in taxes is 'robbed' from you is ludicrous. Not one buck could be earned if not for the society and country as a whole being there, and so it is only appropriate to owe a fair share to maintaining and building that very society and nation that made your success even possible.
Taxing the rich isn't a result of the poor wanting revenge. It is because they are the best source for the taxes to sustain the very fabric of the society that makes wealth possible. Why do you think so many multi-gazillionaires have eagerly signed on to fight for the RE-INSTATEMENT of the estate tax, a tax that only has much effect at all on very large estates of the wealthiest Americans? (Check out Responsible Wealth - responsiblewealth.org, an organization spoken for by Bill Gates, Sr. for more).