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I’ve written before about how some leftists have a masochistic desire to pay higher taxes.
I’ve also exposed Warren Buffett’s dishonest math, which is part of his campaign for bigger government.
And I’ve even debated rich statists on TV, telling them not to make the rest of us victims of their neurotic guilt feelings.
So it was with considerable amusement that I saw this video clip from the Daily Caller, exposing the utter hypocrisy of rich leftists.
By the way, you may recognize Michelle Fields because she narrated this video on how bad government policies such as the New Deal made the Great Depression worse.
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“I am very philanthropic” meaning he gets tax credits for donating to his virtue-signaling “charities” such as Greenpeace, PETA, etc. instead of paying his fair share of taxes. Perhaps we need to rethink those deductions. If they really mean that much to you, donate, but no tax deductions for you!
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Giving the lawmakers more money to spend won’t fix anything.
The solution is to simply remove the air conditioning from the House/Senate.
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Hahaha! Ahhh, the hypocrisy of the progressive statist left rich!! How can so many of our own citizens become so cracked out and brainwashed in so little time? Are they just jumping on a bandwagon because their buddies did so or are they pretending to feel guilty about something?
There is nothing wrong with making money and becoming rich! Good for you! I don’t envy you or anyone else for doing the same. But please do us all a favor and stop. Just stop being such hypocrites!!
The video is ludicrous. It’s an easy and logical “out” to ask these wealthy leftist to donate individually as an individual donation is not even remotely the same thing as a higher tax rate. What would have been more realistic in exposing leftist hypocrisy is to have addressed the entire group and called for commitments to annual donations from each in addition to their taxes.
This still would have been basically asking for charity and the leftist would still have a reasonable out as such but it would have been a much better visual.
The best scenario would have been to have confronted these somehow economics challenged wealthy with the IRS data showing they pay the majority of the taxes and ask them how they believe that while already paying the majority of tax revenue to the government, they believe they and everyone else like them owes more.
Sometimes I think liberals believe in government taxation and redistribution to the less wealthy, because they only want to appear to be compassionate and financially helpful to others, by forcing others to do so against their will.
The rich liberal at the end says it all “I think it’s a joke [for the rich to contribute to government redistribution] and I’m not interested.” It’s no joke when government takes your money. While he isn’t interested in donating money to the Treasury, he is interested in forcing us to do so.
Thank you Mr. Mitchell for helping spread the word about freedom and it’s correlation to prosperity. Freedom means not paying government for anything except protecting our liberties.
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Striking a pose for the good of mankind is the oldest scam in the world. Remember Judas Iscariot, the keeper of the money for the entire group of disciples and Jesus, criticizing Christ for allowing a woman to spend money to anoint him, saying it should have been used for the poor, while he was holding a bag of money. Also remember the dressing down he got, and what he chose to do with his resulting resentment. These guys are no different.
They all testified individually so why is choosing to send their own cash in to the government individually such anathema to them?
Oh yeah, they’re typical limousine liberal hypocrites. For a moment I forgot.
You got a problem with that, peasant?
So, they do not, and will not, pay thier-fair-share? Greedy b#*%ards!
@Zorba Reminds me of a joke;
What is the difference between a developer and a conservationist?
A developer is someone that wants to build a house in the woods.
A conservationist is someone that HAS a house in the woods.
PLEASE ALLOW ME TO TRANSLATE: We’re here to be part of the “good old boys” club supporting Democrat nonsense, which will result in me being rewarded with tax breaks and exemptions from government regulations for my businesses because I buddied up with these corrupt Democrat politicians, and my donation won’t buy me that.
I find it interesting that the default stance these “guilty plutocrats” take when presented with a simple solution to what they consider to be the problem is this suddenly dismissive, testy, condescending attitude to the interviewer (who a few moments previous they were happy to indulge, likely because she’s not bad looking, and rich men like to feel flattered.) It’s the same attitude they take to democracy, which they treat like an alumni association – they pay more, so they should be listened to commensurately more.
I think the key here is that they are willing to pay more, but only if other rich people are forced to pay more. If it was just about wanting to pay more tax, they can easily do this without any new law or tax policy.
So to boil it all down, they want other high earners to be forced to pay more taxes. They think they gain credibility by the fact that they too would have to pay more tax. When they describe their aim as, “We do not pay enough and are willing to pay more.” it opens them to the criticism that they can pay more if they like.
Thank you daily caller for doing the work that “real journalists” continue to fail to do.
What is the moral foundation for this attitude? “I know what the right thing to do is — I know what my fair share is; but I refuse to do what I know is right unless the government passes a law requiring me to do what is right.” Christian ethics would require a person to behave lovingly even if the law did not require it. Kantian deontological ethics would have the person ask, “if everyone in similar circumstances behaved as I do would the world be a better place?” the answer to which would lead you to contribute. Utilitarian ethics would ask whether the costs (to the contributor) are less than the benefits (to the government), and (as I understand their underlying point of view) would lead you to contribute. I don’t think, contrary to one of those interviewed, that this is a silly question.
Wow, yeah, there was one guy talking about how we have to hold hands and do it together, and the individual effort means nothing . . . what a disgusting bunch of dictatorship loving collectivists.
Shows that forcing others to pay is more important than actually solving the problem (national debt)–the fact that none would even donate a “gesture” amount, putting their money where their mouths are.
To be “fair”, the best response they could come up with is
“What you’re asking me to do is make a gesture which would only be a drop in the bucket – I’d be making a sacrifice, but not one which would solve the problem. It’d amount to a ‘gesture’ … some would even call it ‘political grandstanding.’ The only way this problem gets solved is by restructuring the tax code in a way which raises the revenues we need to actually solve the problem. And if that’s done, I’ll gladly pay my share, whatever that might be.”
The “coercive statist” criticism is very valid regardless.
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Interesting that some of the 1% would like us to believe how selflessly philanthropic they are, but can’t bring themselves to donate for a worthy cause [lowering the national debt] unless it is collectively forced on every millionaire. I can’t think of many more hypocritical positions, other than perhaps D.C. legislators protecting their interests in insider Wall Street trading.
No they won’t “donate” of course not. They want the tax code written to increase the taxes on the “1%” while lobbying for “tax loopholes” to hide their income.
“Beware for whom the tax bell tolls. It tolls for thee.”
Haven’t you seen people (of course you have, they are 80% of the population) who as soon as they buy a house or secure a building permit in a certain neighborhood, start descending on city hall with pitchforks every time someone else wants to build something? They are basically saying, “We’ve found our paradise, now let’s close the door – by condemning a minority’s property”.
This is basically what the high tax rich stand for. Apart from showing complete ignorance of economics, they have basically achieved elite status, and want to keep it that way by preventing the rest of us from earning wealth. But the people who are on their way to exceptionalism and doing a good job at it are always a minority. Couple those who have already achieved success with those who either know or think they know that they will never achieve it and you have a supermajority. A supermajority that is the face of Western world decline.
Are these repenting Solyndra executives?
What hypocrites.
Socialism isn’t for the socialists.
They have it mind for us.
Just goes to show you how much of hypocrites they really are.