But Gates is already putting hundreds of millions (if not billions) of dollars into our tax system. Why should he be expected to pay even MORE, simply on the grounds that he is successful? If he pays his 8 % like everyone else, why should we tack on an additiona 10 % just because he is in a higher bracket (which means his 8 % is already far more).
Why should I pay for a welfare system I've never and will never use?
Because he's a decent person (I laugh a little saying that) that wants the society that he profitted off of though no innovation of his own and has manipulated ever since to be a better place. Long run it's better for him if these people have some money to buy his expensive monopoly controlled ****. They should tack on the extra 10% because unlike most of us, it would have ZERO effect on him. There would be nothing, NOTHING, he couldn't do after the taxes that he couldn't do before. Sometimes you have to weigh the benefit of society over the how unfairly (ha!) you're treating one trillionaire. Or if you don't want to do that, why not just take away his lobbiests and his monopoly on almost everything and he'd lose far more money than a mere tax increase, that works for me too.
We're talking about someone that has every advantage possible, who would be untouched by paying extra taxes, and who's already benefitted by using the system unfairly to force others under him. I'm not going to cry cause he's paying more in taxes. **** when did it become a thing to pity the poor rich guy, that stole and abused and bought his way to the top?
And how much of that money isn't going to taxes cause his accountants can do magic we can't? How much of a percentage is he actually paying? I bet the single mother pays more proportunately when all is said and done.
Eventually you have to ask yourself is protecting a single person worth hurting society? Or better yet, what type of person would do this to society just for personal profit? Is that person worth defending? If I had gate's money, I can promise you I wouldn't care a bit by greater taxes to the rich, society and life have been good to them for the most part, they can give a little more back without it hurting. The fact that they ***** to high heaven about it, just shows what a waste of life most of them are.
When I was little my brothers and I got beat when we ****ed up. My sisters did not. That wasn't fair, they got talkings too and we got smacked. But you know what? We were bigger, tougher and we could take it so we did, like men should. We didn't complain to our father asking him to beat our sister's too, we looked after and protected them cause they were weaker and we were family. There are worse attitudes the rich could have.
