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Why wouldn't this job producing tax structure work?

Posted on 2/20/17 at 2:50 pm
Posted by tigerite
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Posted on 2/20/17 at 2:50 pm
This is my own idea so it will need some tweaking.

Tax all income over $20.0m per year at 90%. BUT provide for a $1.50 for $1 tax credit for new jobs created with the same income. The job cost must be $100k each or more - no Walmart wages. $5.0 m per $10.0 m is the max.

Bill has $30.0m in income. He will pay $9.00m in taxes on his last $10.0m in income. But, he creates 50 $100k jobs (the max per 10.0m in income) and gets to exempt $1.50 for each $1.00, or $7.50 m.

So, instead of paying $9.0 m, he spends $5.0 m for jobs, keeps the $2.50 m (on the $1.50 for each $1.00), then pays 90% on the remaining $2.50 m (allowing him to keep another $250k.

2.75m v. 1.00 m in your pocket, plus fifty jobs created/

This is much better than the trickle down garbage.

You get to keep some money (more than enough) and jobs are created.
Posted by OSqueal
Where ever the beer is
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Posted on 2/20/17 at 2:53 pm to
Who's to say when an amount a person makes is more than enough?
Posted by 90proofprofessional
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Posted on 2/20/17 at 2:54 pm to
Posted by Jack Bauers HnK
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Member since Jul 2008
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Posted on 2/20/17 at 2:55 pm to
Just magically create $100k jobs? Jobs don't exist just to provide someone with income. They exist because the employer is making more money than they are paying the employee. As in, that $100k job would already exist on its own, not just so someone can avoid being robbed by the government.
Posted by MrLarson
Member since Oct 2014
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Posted on 2/20/17 at 2:56 pm to
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You get to keep some money (more than enough) and jobs are created.



How about I keep what I earn and frick you?
Posted by tigerite
Member since Dec 2016
136 posts
Posted on 2/20/17 at 2:56 pm to
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Just magically create $100k jobs? Jobs don't exist just to provide someone with income. They exist because the employer is making more money than they are paying the employee. As in, that $100k job would already exist on its own, not just so someone can avoid being robbed by the government.


I assume, correctly, that if presented with that financial incentive, someone smart enough to earn that level of income will be smart enough to figure out how to create some jobs.

Or, they can give the money to the government to create jobs.

Posted by thedogman
Member since Dec 2008
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Posted on 2/20/17 at 2:56 pm to
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tigerite


I forgot all the grade schools were out today, until I read this post
Posted by fooz
DFW
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Posted on 2/20/17 at 2:57 pm to
Puff puff pass, bro.
Posted by Lsuchs
Member since Apr 2013
8073 posts
Posted on 2/20/17 at 2:57 pm to
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Tax all income over $20.0m per year at 90%


20 million?

I foresee a lot of professional athletes receiving $19.99m annually with backloaded contracts trickling the remainder post retirement.
Posted by HempHead
Big Sky Country
Member since Mar 2011
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Posted on 2/20/17 at 2:57 pm to
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government to create jobs


This post was edited on 2/20/17 at 2:58 pm
Posted by bhtigerfan
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Posted on 2/20/17 at 2:57 pm to
Posted by tigerite
Member since Dec 2016
136 posts
Posted on 2/20/17 at 2:58 pm to
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How about I keep what I earn and frick you?


You do keep what you earn, subject to appropriate fair taxes.

Posted by MrLarson
Member since Oct 2014
34984 posts
Posted on 2/20/17 at 2:59 pm to
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Or, they can give the money to the government to create jobs.


They can have their money stolen by the government is the correct way to say this.


We The People has been forgotten. It is time to make it real again.
Posted by Lsuchs
Member since Apr 2013
8073 posts
Posted on 2/20/17 at 3:00 pm to
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You do keep what you earn, subject to appropriate fair taxes.


It's always "fair" until you get there. Everyone wants to get there.
Posted by tigerite
Member since Dec 2016
136 posts
Posted on 2/20/17 at 3:00 pm to
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I foresee a lot of professional athletes receiving $19.99m annually with backloaded contracts trickling the remainder post retirement.


Good, then they would save for retirement rather than ending up broke as many do.

I think they should cap athletic salaries anyway. $30m for throwing a football? I don't think so.
Posted by 90proofprofessional
Member since Mar 2004
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Posted on 2/20/17 at 3:01 pm to
just occurred to me- heather/yoga detected
Posted by HempHead
Big Sky Country
Member since Mar 2011
55438 posts
Posted on 2/20/17 at 3:01 pm to
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I think they should cap athletic salaries anyway.


Oh boy.
Posted by Lsuchs
Member since Apr 2013
8073 posts
Posted on 2/20/17 at 3:01 pm to
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I think they should cap athletic salaries anyway. $30m for throwing a football? I don't think so.


That is what their skills are worth according to the free market.

No one is losing money to pay them what they think "throwing a football" is worth. People make so much off of their talent that those #s are what employers are willing to pay to retain their services over a competitor
This post was edited on 2/20/17 at 3:05 pm
Posted by tigerite
Member since Dec 2016
136 posts
Posted on 2/20/17 at 3:02 pm to
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They can have their money stolen by the government is the correct way to say this.


Wow, not quite. The thieves are the people raking in $20.0m or more who don't create jobs, who horde their wealth, and refuse to share. They steal from society, then whine when government wants its share. Selfish and greedy, they are the enemy. Hard work and enterprise should be rewarded, but not in a limitless, corrupt way.

If the uber wealthy were sharing the wealth, we'd have a different argument.
Posted by LSU_Saints_Hornets
Uptown NO,LA
Member since Jan 2013
9739 posts
Posted on 2/20/17 at 3:03 pm to
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Why wouldn't this job producing tax structure work?



If I own a business and I made 30 million a year in profit, then I would pass 9 million I owe in taxes to the consumers. That's why people who say "tax corporations!" Don't get it. The corporations will continue to pass the taxes to the consumer.
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