Tax Me More!
23rd April 2023
John Hinderaker at Power Line.
Most rich people who take part in politics are on the Left, which is a major reason why the Democratic Party and its candidates consistently have so much more money than the Republican Party and its candidates.
I have long been bemused by rich liberals like Warren Buffett, who tell us their tax rates are too low. Really? Guess what: the IRS will cash your check! If you seriously think you aren’t paying enough taxes, or you actually believe the government spends money more wisely and effectively than you do, there is an easy solution. Write the IRS a check, I guarantee they will cash it.
Yet, strangely, I have never heard of a rich liberal doing this, even though most of these people are second or third generation beneficiaries who cannot comprehend how hard their ancestors worked to accumulate the wealth that they enjoy.
On Wednesday, a group of rich people held a press conference in Washington, urging Congress to pass a 90% tax rate on the wealthy. Stephen Moore crashed their party. It turns out that these rich liberals don’t actually want to turn their own money over to the government. The woman who pipes up at the end is, I understand, a Disney.
The point is that these mooks don’t want taxes raised on them; they want them raised on other people, people who don’t make as much money as they do and therefore would be put at a comparative disadvantage financially by higher tax rates. The ‘write a check’ response is all it takes to strip the word-salad disguise off of this attempted robbery.