Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > Be sensitive to how it looks from the other side of the wealth divide. > I should feel sorry for rich people?!? No, maybe you mean poor people, since I am wealthy.
Originally a Democrat, Adelson became a Republican as his wealth increased. > "Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than > anyone else?" he once asked. > Cry me a river! Rich people pay 15% these days. If they have a decent tax lawyer they do. In percent terms that is HALF of what middle class people pay. People like that make me sick. They have no patriotism. They should move to India or China and see what it like living in a country where the rich pay no taxes. In China, most people who earn $50,000 or more pay only a small bribe to the tax collector. If you want to live in a high tech society with air traffic control, highways everywhere, and first-rate education and health care, you gotta pay for the public infrastructure. You have to pay a lot. Especially in a place like the U.S. where we seem to be perpetually at war with everyone. Someone has to pay trillions of dollars for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Either the rich will pay, or we all will, with inflation. If rich Republicans want to stop paying such high taxes they should stop getting us into idiotic wars. I know lots of rich people. I have all of my life. Believe me, they do not need sympathy or help from anyone. They have it made in the shade. They have more advantages that most people even imagine. Heck, that sweet Mrs. Romney got a $70,000 tax write off for her dancing horse. A business expense! - Jed
