Bill Gates Calls to Raise Capital Gains Tax (wage, compared, Chicago)
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yeah you probably were looking for the communist forum
Clever.
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You get the idea. If you don't like it, you can move to one of the countries that has very little government. Guatemala, Chad, Nigeria come to mind.
I noticed you have 17,000 posts. Heavy use of the Internet, which by the way came from your government. Directly funded by tax dollars. Arpanet was its original name. It would not even exist, and you would not be able to sit at your keyboard and pound out 17,000 posts except for the fact that Americans paid their taxes and the government built the Internet.
Small pox? Not something in any body's mind any longer but it used to be the #1 killer in the world. Polio? Typhoid? Cholera? All eliminated by our corrupt government.
House fire? Heart attack? Call 911. Thanks to the government.
Schools, roads, hospitals, clean water, clean food, no more smog in US cities? All thanks to our corrupt government.
You get the idea. If you don't like it, you can move to one of the countries that has very little government. Guatemala, Chad, Nigeria come to mind.
Just curious....who funds this benevolent government you speak of? As far as I know, they don't have anything they didn't take from somebody else, first.
I'll spend your money all day long on worthy causes. That doesn't make me a good person.
I don't claim to understand all this for sure. I just know we have a couple things coming in the next couple years that we've worked years and years and years for which will be taxed as capital gains. A lot of labor and sweat went into these things that isn't even legal for us to deduct. So, I for one hope the capital gains tax is not increased.
I don't claim to understand all this for sure. I just know we have a couple things coming in the next couple years that we've worked years and years and years for which will be taxed as capital gains. A lot of labor and sweat went into these things that isn't even legal for us to deduct. So, I for one hope the capital gains tax is not increased.
Bill Gates is not talking about you, unless you are one of the super wealthy. For the most part, discussions about raising the capital gains tax rate is about raising the maximum rate, which only people with high income pay. And the way capital gains rate is determined is not by the capital gain itself, it is based on your ordinary income.
Just curious....who funds this benevolent government you speak of? As far as I know, they don't have anything they didn't take from somebody else, first.
I'll spend your money all day long on worthy causes. That doesn't make me a good person.
That is people do in this country, taxes are the price we pay to have a civilized society.
That is people do in this country, taxes are the price we pay to have a civilized society.
In spite of what your civics teacher taught you in govt school, taxes are extracted through bayonet point and threat of prison...does that sound civilized?
A civilized society on the other hand is formed through voluntary and mutual cooperation.
One of the world's largest investors says he should be paying more taxes.
Ask Gates about technology not economics. Better to hear what Joe the plumber has to say or an assistant manager at a major corporation.
When you have to give your money away to gain a tax advantage, your advice is probably not relevant to the majority of working class people. Your word does work well to support government propaganda.
Stocks are a legitimized form of theft. You give someone money and they use it to either A) Overcharge for their product or B) Underpay workers or C) Both A and B and as a result they give you money backwith some extra .
Capital gains should be taxed at 95%.The cuts made by Reagan through Bush have done nothing to benefit the country. They have simple made the wealthy wealthier at the expense of our national debt.
Absurd, if you destroy capital gains then you destroy middle class 401k and private/public pensions.
How does the middle class get ahead and build wealth if we can't invest and risk our money to grow it?
Taxing income as income is not necessarily going to raise an extra penny in taxes.
no, but taxing their gross worth every year on people who want more taxes will ultimately make them worth less each year. if bill gates and warren buffet want to be worth less, then tax their billions at 95% and let them be worth less at the same time.
That is people do in this country, taxes are the price we pay to have a civilized society.
Ironic that the more taxes I pay the less civilized it seems to get...
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