Stephen King: Raise My F***ing Taxes Already
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Re: Stephen King: Raise My F***ing Taxes Already
#2Raising taxes on the Rich will do precisely zero to alleviate anything.
Re: Stephen King: Raise My F***ing Taxes Already
#3He could just give the money to a cause that matters, instead of expecting others to buy weapons to enslave the weak and luxuries for the banksters.
Re: Stephen King: Raise My F***ing Taxes Already
#4He could just give the money to a cause that matters, instead of expecting others to buy weapons to enslave the weak and luxuries for the banksters.
I think he already does this http://www.stkfoundation.org/
Re: Stephen King: Raise My F***ing Taxes Already
#5A tangent on the whole "job creators" thing:
Being rich is not the same thing as creating jobs. In a sense, it's the opposite: Every full-time equivalent's worth of income brought in is a full-time equivalent's worth of money that someone else didn't make instead. In a way, wealth is better thought-of as a measure of how many jobs the owner of a company could have created, but didn't.
Re: Stephen King: Raise My F***ing Taxes Already
#6Write a check to the treasury anytime you like and stop telling the rest of us how we should spend our money.
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Re: Stephen King: Raise My F***ing Taxes Already
#7Write a check to the treasury anytime you like and stop telling the rest of us how we should spend our money. 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20220
So you did not read the article which actually addresses people who make this argument?
Re: Stephen King: Raise My F***ing Taxes Already
#8Link to actual op-ed: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/30/stephen-kin...
Re: Stephen King: Raise My F***ing Taxes Already
#9He could just give the money to a cause that matters, instead of expecting others to buy weapons to enslave the weak and luxuries for the banksters.
Maybe the cause that matters is universal health care.
Re: Stephen King: Raise My F***ing Taxes Already
#10A tangent on the whole "job creators" thing: Being rich is not the same thing as creating jobs. In a sense, it's the opposite: Every full-time equivalent's worth of income brought in is a full-time equivalent's worth of money that someone else didn't make instead. In a way, wealth is better thought-of as a measure of how many jobs the owner of a company could have created, but didn't.
I'm not sure what you said you be any less true. You seem to have no understanding of how a modern economy works, or how the banking system works, or what a salary represents, or what wealth is, or what the determinates of unemployment are, or what it means for a job to be "created", or, hell, even what a "job" is. There are so many flaws here, it's hard to even figure out where to start.
You will be unable to find a single economist, economics textbook, or economic model which agrees with your premise.