[quote=Hobie]How can you have a discussion with such a warped way of thinking?
Any why is the govt better qualified to distribute the after tax savings that I earn?[/quote]
Because it’s the government’s enforcement of laws, property rights, etc. that allowed you to accumulate the wealth in the first place?
[To be clear, I don’t think many folks are in favor of high taxes on estates of a few million dollars, but… once you start getting above $10 million – and particularly the really large fortunes – personally I think pretty high tax rates are in order. In the vast majority of cases, after all, you’ll find the government’s fingerprints, in one form or another, all over the accumulation of those fortunes. One wistfully wonders where Mark Zuckerberg and most of the other internet billionaires would be if the government – and our tax dollars – hadn’t developed the internet…]
