Shouldn’t every person that advocates a 70 to 90 percent tax rate for others be required to pay that rate themselves?

Anonymous

They should be required to pay the marginal tax for their income bracket. For a good chuck of the 20th century, Americans had a tax bracket of more than 70% on the rich. This is how we built the interstates and our infrastructure and made the country great. Lowering of taxes corresponds with our descent into a third world country.

ocularnervosa

By the same token everyone who is against a minimum wage increase should have to live on the current minimum wage.

Mog

You can’t squeeze blood from a turnip. Besides, you don’t seem to understand that tax proposal. Let’s say they tax 90% on income over $10 million. If you make $10,000,001, you only pay 90% of $1.

Anonymous

If I was offered to have my income increased to 10 million dollars a year (I believe that is about the rate that AC has proposed these rates would apply to), even 90% still leaves me a million a year. Yeah, I'd agree to take the money and pay it.

RICK

As long as they earn above the amount required to trigger that rate they would Remember that's only on the amount over $10 million, so if you make $11 million you pay that rate only on $1 million not the entire $11 million. But I think that's 70 to 90% is way too high

Max Hoopla

Yes if they have income that would be taxed at that rate.

Slumlord

No, its based on your income or other factors. Not on whether you advocate for it.

Philip H

Makes sense to me. Let them be the ones to lead the way. After a couple of years the rest of us can decide if it was worthwhile.

Pascal the Gambler

How does that "make it fair"? That's like saying anyone who advocates the death penalty should get the death penalty if they commit a crime, just to make it fair.

Lois Griffin

not if everyone else isn't included.

Anonymous

The other day I was talking to friends, and I advocated a 70 to 90 percent tax rate for billionaires. whoops oh no ! Now I have to pay that rate ! You must have majored in Economics at Trump University

Dze

Actually tyrants like that should be drug out to the nearest tree and strung up .. you don't want psychos like that ruling over you for sure

Kevin

That person should be shipped to Venezuela on the next banana boat.