Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.
People think of taxes as money just being robbed from you. They don't consider the benefits of paying taxes. The benefits that they get and also the benefit of just being a part of a large group of people: a town, or a city, or a country, or a society that allegedly should stand together and all try to help each other.
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.
I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the pain a little bit.
But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times?
Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.
We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.
The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.
Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.