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.
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Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.
You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich.
The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.
I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the pain a little bit.
The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes.
If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.
You know, you cut taxes for the rich sometimes and it sits in a bank account. You cut taxes for the middle class, they will spend the money.
Everyone wants the rich to pay more in 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.