The 68% 1% who dont want to be rich in a poor country

[ErikJ]

As Thom Hartmann says: These are common sense rich people that dont want to be rich in a poor country.


The 68%: Polls Are Finding Support for a Millionaires Tax


ALEXANDER ABAD-SANTOS1,664 ViewsOCT 27, 2011
Two polls, one of millionaires and one of everyone, have both found 68 percent support for a millionaires surtax.

"68 percent of millionaires (those with investments of $1 million or more) support raising taxes on those with $1 million or more in income. Fully 61 percent of those with net worths of $5 million or more support the tax on million-plus earners," reports the Wall Street Journal,

citing a study from Spectrem Group—a consulting firm that focuses on the affluent and retirement markets. If "68 percent" sounds familiar, it's because last week's National Journal poll regarding the Democratic proposal for a millionaire tax found that "a whopping 68 percent of adults support the Democratic surtax to pay for the cost of their jobs plan." So basically, 68 percent of America's 1 percent, totally agrees with the 68 percent of the America's 99 percent (taking into account that NJ's poll didn't discern between income brackets)? That might be the sound of common ground (or a blogger trying his best to crunch numbers).

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2011/10/68-polls-are-finding-support-millionaires-tax/44212/

[Marazinia]

1. Know what's funny?

Edit for failure to properly read.

[aquart]

2. Only selfish, unpatriotic pigs don't want to tax the rich.

[Kat45]

6. e.g. (many of) our Congresspeople & Senators--those who pass the laws.

And of course the neocons, right-wingers, and the rulers of corporate America (i.e.,those who own those in the subject line).

[pnwmom]

3. I can't understand why so many low and middle income people

are so worried about raising taxes on people who won't miss the extra money one bit.

[undergroundpanther]

4. because they

believe if you work hard,do what you are told,they'll be billionaires one day,this myth has been pounded into people it's called 'American Exceptionalism' and it is an onerous lie from the gilded age.When people feel powerless even if they never acknowledge it consciously they'll believe anything if it gets them to a higher rank among people they think matter,and the awe of their peers even if it never happens.


Mark Twain made fun of it.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4935/

Why we have to fight that lie.
http://www.fightbacknews.org/2004/01winter/algermyth.htm

[Raine]

5. Yes, exactly. They actually BELIEVE that one day

if they do everything they're told to do like work hard etc they will be one of the 1%. x(

[OnionPatch]

7. Well, I think there are a few who think they'll be rich someday, but

most of them have just been brainwashed by our MSM into thinking taxes are a burden to the sacred "job-creators", and have been led to believe raising taxes will raise unemployment. In other words, right wing propaganda is working.

I really don't know any conservatives who believe they're going to be rich someday, so I don't buy into that explanation as much as some seem to.