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New site? Maybe some day.
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[QUOTE=]Warren Buffett’s plea for raised taxes seems to have caused a chain reaction: A French group followed suit, and the head of Ferrari said he should pay more. A group of wealthy Germans is the latest to seek higher rates, the Guardian reports. The 50-member alliance has asked Chancellor Angela Merkel to “stop the gap between rich and poor getting even bigger”—even though “none of us are in Buffett's or Bettencourt's league,” notes the group’s founder, referring to France’s richest woman.
“We're a broad church—teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs. Most of our wealth is inherited. But we have more money than we need,” adds founder Dieter Lehmkuhl, whose personal assets amount to $2 million. The group, called “The Wealthy for a Capital Levy,” holds that a two-year, 5% wealth tax could add $144 billion to Germany’s coffers. The wealthiest Germans currently see a 42% tax rate. “The answer to sorting out Germany's financial problems is not to bring in cuts, which will disproportionately hit poorer people,” Lehmkuhl says. “Tax increases are a way out of this mess. That's where the money is: rich people.”
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I was impressed that there's actually wealthy people in other countries that actually wanted to contribute. That will never happen here. |
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There's a major difference between a rich German wanting to pay more taxes to Germany VS a rich American wanting to pay more taxes to America. |
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"I pay enough taxes" is repeated over and over again in this country, it's a different story how a government uses them. |
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There's a major difference between a rich German wanting to pay more taxes to Germany VS a rich American wanting to pay more taxes to America. |
In B4 4th Reich... |
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why would rich horror want to pay more taxes?
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