The Incredible Arrogance of the Rich
September 30, 2010 at 1:04 PM 2 comments
John Stossel, in an article against, natch, “Taxing the Rich,” quotes Donald Trump in a jaw-droppingly arrogant statement:
Donald Trump, who knows something about making money, says of course the rich will leave when hit with higher taxes. “I know these people,” he told me. “They’re international people. Whether they live here or live in a place like Switzerland doesn’t really matter to them.”
You haven’t left, I told him.
“I haven’t left yet. … Look, the rich people are going to leave. And other people are going to leave. You’re going to end up with lots of people that don’t produce. And then that’s the spiral. That’s the end.”
So, in other words, the rich produce everything and we, the Little People lemmings, would be lost without them. The country would collapse.
Wow.
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solikemybeth | September 30, 2010 at 2:51 PM
This is the line in the article that just kills me:
As I’ve said before, a tax cut is not a handout. It simply means government steals less.
When did collecting taxes to pay for running our country become a crime?
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Say It Ain't So Already | September 30, 2010 at 4:28 PM
Good question.
When I pay my taxes I don’t think of it as “stealing.” I don’t always like the way tax money is spent — that’s my beef — but “stealing?”
What would they call the bank bailouts? Seems to me they came closer to being defined as “stealing,” than paying taxes.