Stephen King: Raise My F***ing Taxes Already

[jhnewhall]

He could just give the money to a cause that matters, instead of expecting others to buy weapons to enslave the weak and luxuries for the banksters.

[sarvinc]

I think he already does this http://www.stkfoundation.org/

[GiraffeNecktie]

Maybe the cause that matters is universal health care.

[sigzero]

Raising taxes on the Rich will do precisely zero to alleviate anything.

[tyisathome]

Link to actual op-ed: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/30/stephen-kin...

[bunderbunder]

A tangent on the whole "job creators" thing:

Being rich is not the same thing as creating jobs. In a sense, it's the opposite: Every full-time equivalent's worth of income brought in is a full-time equivalent's worth of money that someone else didn't make instead. In a way, wealth is better thought-of as a measure of how many jobs the owner of a company could have created, but didn't.

[simplefish]

I'm not sure what you said you be any less true. You seem to have no understanding of how a modern economy works, or how the banking system works, or what a salary represents, or what wealth is, or what the determinates of unemployment are, or what it means for a job to be "created", or, hell, even what a "job" is. There are so many flaws here, it's hard to even figure out where to start.

You will be unable to find a single economist, economics textbook, or economic model which agrees with your premise.

[kevin_morrill]

Write a check to the treasury anytime you like and stop telling the rest of us how we should spend our money.

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[brettbender]

So you did not read the article which actually addresses people who make this argument?

[emilv]

Why is this showing up in the Hacker News feed?

[rsanchez1]

If he's so anxious about it, why doesn't he just write a check out to the Treasury? Nobody is stopping him from giving more of his money to the government.