Stephen King: Raise My F***ing Taxes Already

http://www.newser.com/story/145065/stephen-king-raise-my-fing-taxes-already.html

by hachiya • 14 years ago

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sigzero• 14 years ago

Raising taxes on the Rich will do precisely zero to alleviate anything.

jhnewhall• 14 years ago

He could just give the money to a cause that matters, instead of expecting others to buy weapons to enslave the weak and luxuries for the banksters.

sarvinc• 14 years ago

I think he already does this http://www.stkfoundation.org/

GiraffeNecktie• 14 years ago

Maybe the cause that matters is universal health care.

rsanchez12• 14 years ago

Then start a foundation. Taxation, or the lack thereof, didn't stop Bill Gates. He didn't sit on the sidelines complaining. He saw a problem and did something about it. He found his cause that matters.

bunderbunder3• 14 years ago

A tangent on the whole "job creators" thing:

Being rich is not the same thing as creating jobs. In a sense, it's the opposite: Every full-time equivalent's worth of income brought in is a full-time equivalent's worth of money that someone else didn't make instead. In a way, wealth is better thought-of as a measure of how many jobs the owner of a company could have created, but didn't.

simplefish3• 14 years ago

I'm not sure what you said you be any less true. You seem to have no understanding of how a modern economy works, or how the banking system works, or what a salary represents, or what wealth is, or what the determinates of unemployment are, or what it means for a job to be "created", or, hell, even what a "job" is. There are so many flaws here, it's hard to even figure out where to start.

You will be unable to find a single economist, economics textbook, or economic model which agrees with your premise.

bunderbunder3• 14 years ago

Care to elaborate, rather than simply posting a flame?

kevin_morrill• 14 years ago

Write a check to the treasury anytime you like and stop telling the rest of us how we should spend our money.

1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20220

brettbender• 14 years ago

So you did not read the article which actually addresses people who make this argument?

tyisathome• 14 years ago

Link to actual op-ed: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/30/stephen-kin...

emilv• 14 years ago

Why is this showing up in the Hacker News feed?

rsanchez12• 14 years ago

If he's so anxious about it, why doesn't he just write a check out to the Treasury? Nobody is stopping him from giving more of his money to the government.

Stephen King: Raise My F***ing Taxes Already

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