Warren Buffett is again calling for increased taxes for the mega-rich. This is easy for him to say because he essentially pays no taxes. These taxes have no effect on his life. The customers of his businesses pay his taxes for him. Taxes for him are just another business expense like electricity or
labor. They are just part of the cost of production or service his company is providing. This is also true for those a little down from the billionaire level.
Movie stars and athletes know the taxes they are going to be paying so if they are in the rich class they adjust their salary demands for the taxes to be paid. The viewers of their skill end up paying the tax. All of these taxes on the rich trickle down to the middle class consumers of their products or services. This provides a convenient definition of middle class. The middle class is unable to pass taxes on to anyone else. The poor get more from the government than they pay in taxes. The rich are able to pass on taxes to someone else. The middle class then is defined as the people left who pay all of the taxes.
Brad Ipsen
Marysville
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