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Group of wealthy Americans write open letter asking to be taxed more
« on: June 24, 2019, 01:35:16 pm »
Group of wealthy Americans write open letter asking to be taxed more
By Marina Pitofsky - 06/24/19 09:00 AM EDT

A group of nearly 20 wealthy Americans on Monday released a letter asking for all 2020 presidential hopefuls to support a “moderate wealth tax” on the richest one-tenth of the richest one percent of Americans.

“America has a moral, ethical and economic responsibility to tax our wealth more. A wealth tax could help address the climate crisis, improve the economy, improve health outcomes, fairly create opportunity, and strengthen our democratic freedoms,” the letter says, as published by The New York Times.

“Instituting a wealth tax is in the interest of our republic,” it continues. 

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Re: Group of wealthy Americans write open letter asking to be taxed more
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2019, 01:37:01 pm »
Sending a letter to the NYT...lol

You can pay more to the Gov anytime you wish just write a check to the IRS, if you were really serious you would have done this.
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Re: Group of wealthy Americans write open letter asking to be taxed more
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2019, 01:40:29 pm »
Cool. That should take care of the annual needs of the number of illegals that cross the border every month.

Just write the check already, posers.
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Re: Group of wealthy Americans write open letter asking to be taxed more
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2019, 02:06:05 pm »
Financial gifts can be made by check or money order payable to the United States Treasury and mailed to the address below.

Gifts to the United States
U.S. Department of the Treasury
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P.O. Box 1328
Parkersburg, WV 26106-1328

https://fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.html

If they wanted to be taxed more, they would have already done this.  What they want is for "other people" to be taxed more.
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Re: Group of wealthy Americans write open letter asking to be taxed more
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2019, 02:40:41 pm »
Don't just virtue signal, you wealthy leftists-just mail your check today!
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Re: Group of wealthy Americans write open letter asking to be taxed more
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2019, 04:45:31 pm »
Quote from: austingirl on June 24, 2019, 02:40:41 pm
Don't just virtue signal, you wealthy leftists-just mail your check today!
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Re: Group of wealthy Americans write open letter asking to be taxed more
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2019, 04:49:11 pm »
Most, if not all, of these jackasses don't care what the income tax rate is because they pay little to none.
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Re: Group of wealthy Americans write open letter asking to be taxed more
« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2019, 04:51:38 pm »
So these super rich mail in a large check. How large? The article doesn't say how much.
So these richie rich types believe simply giving more money to some fund will help those on the bottom?
I think they've already done a study showing that if they taxes the richest one percent a lot more, it would do little to help things.

 "A  2012 report from the Tax Policy Center had basically similar findings. It estimated at the time that reducing debt to 60 percent of GDP by 2035 would require increasing the then-top two tax rates to over 100 percent."
The study found that the idea of extra taxes on the super rich would be  fruitless.
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Re: Group of wealthy Americans write open letter asking to be taxed more
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2019, 04:59:09 pm »
They can always write a check to the government.

They want the peons to pay more in taxes.
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Re: Group of wealthy Americans write open letter asking to be taxed more
« Reply #9 on: June 24, 2019, 06:22:03 pm »
Go ahead and pay more.
Nothing is stopping y'all.
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Re: Group of wealthy Americans write open letter asking to be taxed more
« Reply #10 on: June 24, 2019, 11:50:26 pm »
Quote from: thackney on June 24, 2019, 02:06:05 pm
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If they wanted to be taxed more, they would have already done this.  What they want is for "other people" to be taxed more.

Exactly. 
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Re: Group of wealthy Americans write open letter asking to be taxed more
« Reply #11 on: June 25, 2019, 03:56:56 am »
Quote from: Bigun on June 24, 2019, 04:49:11 pm
Most, if not all, of these jackasses don't care what the income tax rate is because they pay little to none.

Maybe not, but they're not advocating for higher income tax rates.
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Re: Group of wealthy Americans write open letter asking to be taxed more
« Reply #12 on: June 25, 2019, 07:11:40 pm »
Quote from: thackney on June 24, 2019, 02:06:05 pm
If they wanted to be taxed more, they would have already done this.  What they want is for "other people" to be taxed more.

Correctamundo.
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