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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Why?
How would you become a billionaire with that attitude?
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What are you talking about? Why would being willing to pay more taxes make me unable to become a billionaire. I don't think you know how people become billionaires.
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Are you suggesting if you were a millionaire you would not be willing to pay more taxes? Does this imply that others may have a threshold as well? Perhaps, for me when I hit a trillion I would be happy to pay more taxes?
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Maybe my use of the backslash was unclear. m/billionaire = millionaire and/or billionaire. Shit, I'd be happy to pay more taxes as a hundred-thousandaire. All other things remaining constant, I'm looking to move up a tax bracket or two in the next year and I am perfectly fine paying more taxes when that happens.
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Perhaps, the issue is not paying taxes but in giving money to those who waste it or spending unwisely. Why would anyone want to do that? Would you?
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Nope, I'm pretty sure the issue is paying taxes.
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If you had no faith in political leaders, would you give them more of what you worked and sacrificed for? I wouldn't. It is rare to find government bureaucrats who actually understand how to improve the standard of living in a community.
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First, it is a stretch to say that the wealthiest have "worked" or "sacrificed" for most of their money. Perhaps they sweated to come into their first bit of money. Maybe they lost it all and had to bust their ass to get it again. However, I would bet that the top marginal ratio of cash earned to sweat is pretty large.
I'd say that it's rare to find a public employee who
agrees with you about how to improve the standard of living in a community, but that's probably because supply side economics has been a failure to anyone who isn't a religious adherent to supply side economics.
You know what improves standard of life in a community? Public and private investment.