I see what you are saying here, however I still don’t see the issue with taxing the rich heavier, the thing is sure a lot of people give and that is great, but where the money needs to be is with the nation to get it out of debt. I think a top tax of 70% like that article said would be relatively fair as opposed to what it is right now, which is 35%, are you *edited*ing kidding me?
385,000,000 * .35 = 134,750,000. Now that is a lot of money. Now she still has 250,250,000. Still a quarter of a Billion dollars. Ummm, no wonder she buys people cars on her show…. Oh wait she doesn’t pay for that, the network does.
My main point is, yes some people are trying to be charitable, but not everyone is, we still have the insanely rich and the insanely greedy. Unfortunately there needs to be a happy medium.
385,000,000 * .70 = 269,500,000 = 115,500,000. Hmmm still seems insanely wealthy to me. And the nation just gained 100 million more dollars on ONE person. How many middle class people do you have to tax at what percentage to get that amount?
I dunno, the answer seems obvious to me. I think to me it is more about equalizing out the structure of our class system a bit and neutralizing the nation’s debt. If we raised the taxes on the wealthy to my proposed percentage, I think that would be easily attainable, and guess what, the rich would still be rich, but the poor and middle class would not have to carry this country on their shoulders.