I Missthe North
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Really? Where do you get that from? Will his giving up caviar or argula, help the less fortunate? How?
If not, how will punishing the rich?
Do you see a problem?
Honestly, I do see a problem with state mandated donations to the poor (which is essentially what taxes on the rich are because they clearly do not need most of the programs that their taxes go to), but there is a pretty simple way around that; the rich could donate large sums of their money back into the community on their own. As I said before, I believe it is the responsibility of those are are extremely well off to help those who are less fortunate and sadly, I do not see them doing that on a large enough scale on their own. At the turn of the last century, America saw great philanthropists among the uber wealthy in the form of Rockefeller, Carnegie, Astor and others who donated the equivalent of billions to their local communities to help others. Nowadays the only people I see going out of their way to help of such a large scale are men like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. Most wealthy people today only donate so they can get tax breaks. America's modern consumer culture is based around satisfying one's selfish desires instead of helping the people around us. If the government has to forcefully make these people help out others so be it; they have made it quite clear that they are unwilling to do it on their own.