TAXATION
by George Lucas
Taxation is paying your dues, paying your membership fee in America. If you join a country club or a community center, you pay fees. Why? You did not build the swimming pool. You have to maintain it. You did not build the basketball court. Someone has to clean it. You may not use the squash court, but you still have to pay your dues. Otherwise it won’t be maintained and will fall apart. People who avoid taxes, like corporations that move to Bermuda, are not paying their dues to the country. It is patriotic to be a taxpayer. It is traitorous to desert our country and not pay your dues.
Perhaps Bill Gates Sr. said it best. In arguing to keep the inheritance tax, he pointed out that he and Bill Jr. did not invent the Internet. They just used it — to make billions. There is no such thing as a self-made [person]. Every businessman has used the vast American infrastructure, which the taxpayers paid for, to make his money. He did not make his money alone. He used taxpayer infrastructure. He got rich on what other taxpayers had paid for: the Treasury and Commerce Departments, the judicial system, where nine-tenths of the cases involve corporate law. These taxpayer investments support companies and wealthy investors. There are no self-made men! The wealthy have gotten rich using what previous taxpayers paid for. They owe the taxpayers of this country a great deal and should be paying it back.
Be nice for people to talk this up in the upcoming 2012 election.
2 comments:
Then how the hell did our Congress approve TWO wars without the taxes to pay for them? IF (and this is debatable) these wars are keeping us ALL safe, then every friken one of us should be paying a tax OR telling Congress no more wars. We all heard of Taxation without Representation. Well here is a case of Representation without taxation. EACH DECISION TO GO TO WAR SHOULD INCLUDE AN EXIT STRATEGY, EST. COST TO COVER THAT PERIOD OF TIME AND COMMITMENT AND HOW IT IS TO BE PAID FOR.
Or Lyndon Johnson getting Congress to approve the Vietnam War which back then was no longer a "conflict". The point of this quote is that no one made it to the top without the taxpayers having paved the roads in Marble. Now the rich are hiding their booty overseas and not paying ten cents to help others in the pay system. It has little to do with a war. It could be anything, like foolishly saving Wall Street only to discover the rich pay themselves a bonus off the loan.
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