Rich shouldn’t have to pay taxes, Santorum backer Friess says (& we should "honor & uplift" the 1%)

[highplainsdem]

http://blogs.reuters.com/chrystia-freeland/2012/02/17/rich-shouldn%E2%80%99t-have-to-pay-taxes-santorum-backer-says/

“People don’t realize how wealthy people self-tax,” Friess told me when I asked whether, given the country’s economic troubles, it was fair to ask the rich to pay a bigger share. “You know, there’s a fellow who was the CEO of Target. In Phoenix, he’s created a museum of music. He put in around $200 million of his own money. I have another friend who gave $400 million to a health facility in Nebraska or South Dakota, or someplace like that. You look at Bill Gates, just gave $750 million, I think, to fight AIDS.”

-snip-

As for the idea that an economic age like our own, which is conducive to creating vast fortunes, should also be one in which taxes are high, Friess considers that absurd. “If you look at what Steve Jobs has done for us, what Bill Gates has done for society, the government ought to pay them. Why do they collect money from Gates and Jobs for what they’ve contributed? It’s ridiculous.”

Indeed, Friess is unconvinced by the entire 99 percent paradigm. In his view, it is the Americans at the bottom of income distribution who are getting the free ride.

-snip-

“It’s that top 1 percent that probably contributes more to making the world a better place than the 99 percent. I’ve never seen any poor people do what Bill Gates has done. I’ve never seen poor people hire many people,” he said. “So I think we ought to honor and uplift the 1 percent, the ones who have created value.”

[catnhatnh]

1. Your Majesty...

...allow me to uplift you onto this tumbrel cart. 'Tis but a short ride to the public square where a large crowd wishes to see you upon their scaffold.

[Kablooie]

6. This seems apropo

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates at the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
by Peter Weiss

[dimbear]

7. The machine you see constructed there is the brainchild of a bright French

entrepreneur, a doctor in fact, who wishes to aid society and also reap a fitting monetary reward.

Enjoy the ride.

[saras]

2. There's really only one appropriate response to this kind of thought...

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[Populist_Prole]

3. Put him in the "Never interrupt your enemy while he's making a mistake" file

Interesting they would try to combine the most vile and condescending anti-populist economic message with the fundamentalist theocratic christian meme...and think that this will somehow make for the best combo of wide and deep to actually swing a majority of voters.

Oh man yer killin us! Keep doing it.

[highplainsdem]

14. +1,000

[2ndAmForComputers]

4. Eventually, the amount of people who have nothing left to lose will rise above an unknown threshold.

And that will make events who are currently unlikely to happen to the likes of this Friess person, likely.

[pennylane100]

10. I think I will learn to knit so I can be Madam Defarge.

but with a happier ending.

[ronnie624]

5. The wealthy, single-handedly "created value",

with no input from labor, and they should be free to directly buy off the legislative process.

How fascinating.

People like this individual would enslave all of the working class if they could. Make no mistake about it.

[JDPriestly]

8. It isn't about what the 1% does for us.

It's about what all of us working together could do for ourselves if we decided through democratic means what should be done with that part of the wealth that should belong to all of us.

I would like to see a return to high inheritance taxes. The trust fund kids did nothing to create the money they enjoy. The best time to tax wealth is when it changes hands.

If we don't return to taxing wealth at the time it passes from one generation to the next, we will end up with an aristocracy. In fact, we now have an aristocracy thanks to our low inheritance taxes.

The tax on wealth at the point of inheritance should affect the very wealthy, not the modestly wealthy.

[unblock]

9. "we should honor and uplift the 1 percent" -- sounds ridiculous until you realize -- we already do!

society lavishes money upon them, making them -- the 1% in the first place!

i mean, he's missing that rich people *get paid*, and get paid *a lot* to create the value he's praising them for.
so much so that they become -- the 1%!


he acts as if bill gates did it all for minimum wage and then the government should come along and say, hey, for all you've done, why don't we make you the richest man in the world. here, have a check!

[JaneQPublic]

11. Yes, we could make them nobility and give them cool titles, like...

...Duke and Earl and Viscount.

And then require that the lower classes refer to them as "My Lord" and "My Lady."

And make it so only the nobility can serve in the Senate and only landowners can vote.

And then change the laws to even better ensure that the wealth stays with the wealthy and is passed from one generation to the next.

Oh, wait. That form of society was already tried and abandoned (for the most part) in Britain. And the U.S. was created to get away from that kind of thing.

[nwliberalkiwi]

12. Someone May Not Be Happy

I wonder what Jesus thinks of Mr. Friess? I don't think things are going to end well for you sir!

[MineralMan]

15. Yes. Let's lift them up on a rail and honor them

with a cloak of tar and feathers. Parade them through the town, so all can see. We should celebrate them and give them what is due to them, for sure.

[Zalatix]

16. I keep saying there's no real difference between these GOP candidates

Last month it was Romney hatemania. Then it was Gingrich hatemania.

The uplift-the-1% mentality is shared by ALL the candidates. This nomination race is a distraction from the fact that all these candidates want to gut the 99%, and the only contention between them is based on jealousy and the fact that there can be only one.

[part man all 86]

17. The new class "IDOL RICH".

We are to worship unholiness of the idol rich. gives a new meaning to idolatry.

[varelse]

19. Idol Rich

I'm stealing that

[highplainsdem]

18. kick