Every time a country goes hard on soaking the rich, the rich just leave — then you've got lower tax revenue AND fewer jobs. France tried it and reversed course pretty fast for a reason.
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Should billionaires pay a higher tax rate than the middle class they supposedly create jobs for?
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Honestly the government has proven time and again it can't efficiently spend the money it already has, so handing it more through punitive rates on wealthy people just feeds a broken machine.
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Capital gains get taxed differently because that money was ALREADY taxed as income once — people act like billionaires are dodging taxes when really the system is just accounting for double taxation.
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My dad built a small manufacturing business from nothing and the second it started doing well, everyone wanted a bigger cut. Punishing people for scaling up just teaches entrepreneurs to stop scaling.
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The top 1% already pays something like 40% of all federal income taxes — at what point does 'higher rate' become 'just punish success'? The math doesn't support the outrage.
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My grandfather paid 70% on income above a certain threshold in the 50s and somehow the economy boomed, the middle class expanded, and nobody died. The idea that taxing extreme wealth kills prosperity is just billionaire propaganda with a better marketing budget.
Marginal utility is real — an extra thousand dollars means nothing to a billionaire and everything to a family paycheck to paycheck, so asking them to contribute a larger share isn't punishment, it's just math.
Look, I'm not even mad at rich people for being rich, but there's something deeply broken about a society where a hedge fund manager's yacht gets depreciated as a business asset while I can't deduct my work boots.
The whole 'job creator' argument falls apart when you realize consumer demand creates jobs, not billionaires sitting on capital gains taxed at 20% while nurses pay 32%. Tax the money where it actually pools.
When I was working two jobs and still couldn't afford my kid's braces, my effective tax rate was higher than Warren Buffett's — he literally admitted this himself. That's not a system, that's a scam.