You can call them wealthy people and want to take their money from them. I prefer to call them "the people 95% of the rest of the people work for". I'm a job creator. I hire people and I pay people wages, all of which taxes are taken out of. If you raise my taxes as one that creates jobs, guess what I'm going to do. Not hire people, cut my expenses or do whatever else I have to in order to make my business survive.
I have yet to see one factual statistic that show that raising taxes encourages people with money to hire, to give their employees more, or to invest in new machinery, people, or technology.
I've not seen any evidence in that ever being the factual case. However, there is plenty of factual data that shows when you cut taxes, it spurs that sort of spending. History is there for that.
Like I said, I'm running a business. If you make it harder on me, why in the world would you think I'd take the risk to hire anyone or pay anything for them. So by raising my taxes, you're making sure I don't hire people, I don't invest, and you get no taxes from all the employees I'd hire, no sales tax from all the things I'd buy and use to run my business.
I've spent my time outside the USA as well and I don't see many social models out there that are fairing better than we are.
The issue I see is just because I think we should encourage businesses to grow and hire people, doesn't mean I think we should ignore those that need help. It's not an "either, or" situation. Last time I checked, Bill and Melinda Gates have invested more money to help people's health than just about anyone else on the planet. They weren't taxed into doing that. They did it because they were fortunate and believed that they could help people.
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