Doonesbury Say What?
Sep. 28th, 2010 07:58 am"A Quinnipiac University poll this year showed nearly two-thirds of those with household incomes of more than $250,000 a year support raising their own taxes to reduce the federal deficit."
-- from WSJ story
I would imagine Congresscritters weren't included in that survey, and if I recall correctly, pretty much every member of said institution (and wouldn't it be great if they were institutionalized!) is in that income bracket.
Here's the story: http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2010/09/20/tax-me-more-says-wealthy-entrepreneur/?mod=rss_WSJBlog
And here's an interesting quote from said story: An op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times by Garrett Gruener, an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, makes two important points about taxing the rich. (Mr. Gruener founded Ask.com and is the CEO of Nanomix and is a co-founder of Alta Partners, so he’s got street cred.)
First, he says tax rates don’t make or break the success of an entrepreneur – or the jobs he creates. He says he’s paying the lowest rates of his working life. But “if you want the simple, honest truth, from my perspective as an entrepreneur, the fluctuation didn’t affect what I did with my money. None of my investments has ever been motivated by the rate at which I would have to pay personal income tax,” Mr. Gruener writes.
I don't have a cite for the survey mentioned, but I'm going to look for it. I'm interested in how big the sample was and what other questions they asked.
-- from WSJ story
I would imagine Congresscritters weren't included in that survey, and if I recall correctly, pretty much every member of said institution (and wouldn't it be great if they were institutionalized!) is in that income bracket.
Here's the story: http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2010/09/20/tax-me-more-says-wealthy-entrepreneur/?mod=rss_WSJBlog
And here's an interesting quote from said story: An op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times by Garrett Gruener, an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, makes two important points about taxing the rich. (Mr. Gruener founded Ask.com and is the CEO of Nanomix and is a co-founder of Alta Partners, so he’s got street cred.)
First, he says tax rates don’t make or break the success of an entrepreneur – or the jobs he creates. He says he’s paying the lowest rates of his working life. But “if you want the simple, honest truth, from my perspective as an entrepreneur, the fluctuation didn’t affect what I did with my money. None of my investments has ever been motivated by the rate at which I would have to pay personal income tax,” Mr. Gruener writes.
I don't have a cite for the survey mentioned, but I'm going to look for it. I'm interested in how big the sample was and what other questions they asked.