The 99% Owe "A Debt of Gratitude" to the 1%, The rich shouldnt pay tax

The former college professor and board member of the Ayn Rand Institute wrote an incendiary column this month in Forbes, arguing that the community should give back to the wealth-creators and the world should be indebted to the rich and powerful for their enormous contributions to our standard of living.

He also reiterated his call that anyone who earns more than $1 million a year deserves an exemption from paying taxes, a symbolic gesture he notes, because the great achievers (individuals like Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Steve Jobs) lifted us out of the cave and gave us our standard of living. He also proposes that the highest earner of the year maybe an investment banker, hedge fund manager or CEO be given a Congressional Medal of Honor in return for his or her contribution to human life.

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I totally agree. We should be giving the Kardashians complete tax exempt status for being such an enormous contribution to society.

Thank you for the recession.

Everyone making more than $1 million a year absolutely deserves a tax exemption.

So does everyone making under $1 million a year.

LOL

just another way to seperate the haves from the have nots. disgusting

Everyone should pay taxes, but they should be reasonable.

Was it the rich guys on Wall Street who caused the crash or was it the little guys?

You know what he's probably correct, we should thank them by giving them our paychecks and allowing government to give them a tax free ride. All hail the mighty creators.

Thank god for all those professional athletes and reality T.V. stars creating all our jobs!

Ayn Rand is both an abomination to philosophy and literature.

Does he not realize that the Medal of Honor is a military honor not a civilian one?  Not a very smart professor there

Ayn Rand is both an abomination to philosophy and literature.

drekula2

And she was ugly

Thank god for all those professional athletes and reality T.V. stars creating all our jobs!

redstorm72

Anyone associated with the Ayn Rand institute has automatically lost all credibility. Makhaidos

This guy is an idiot.

I wonder where our resident Randroid defender is to weigh in on this topic.

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Thank god for all those professional athletes and reality T.V. stars creating all our jobs!

Toxic-Seahorse

They get paid millions of dollars to do what most of us do for fun. My heart does not bleed for them.

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Thank god for all those professional athletes and reality T.V. stars creating all our jobs!

redstorm72

They get paid millions of dollars to do what most of us do for fun. My heart does not bleed for them.

It's still a lot of work and time

board member of the Ayn Rand Institute

loco145

Stopped right about there.

yes, because when we were living in caves, we needed investment bankers and CEOs, not hunters and gatherers and workers.

No no no...we needed people who did not want to work, wanted others to work for them, and make all the profit while sharing only a portion of it.

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board member of the Ayn Rand Institute

THE_DRUGGIE

Stopped right about there.

Yeah, I am surprised that is even a thing. 

They think they are entitled to everything.  Even anal bleaching.  F*ck them, and F*ck an rand or whatever.

They think they are entitled to everything.  Even anal bleaching.  F*ck them, and F*ck an rand or whatever.

GOGOGOGURT

**** 'em right in their purdy buttholes?

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[QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"] Hey, don't even compare professional athletes to reality TV stars. Being a professional athlete is a ton of work. More work than most people will ever do. Any trashy person can be a reality TV star.thegerg

They get paid millions of dollars to do what most of us do for fun. My heart does not bleed for them.

They have no experience outside their sport.  They are entertainers, and nothing else.  Well, maybe wife-beaters, dog-fighters, and drug-dealers.  But that's it.

They have no experience outside their sport.  They are entertainers, and nothing else.  Well, maybe wife-beaters, dog-fighters, and drug-dealers.  But that's it.

GOGOGOGURT

Then do what they do and get paid like them.

Just because you can't appreciate athletic ability doesn't mean other people see them as valueless. The amount of money they make proves otherwise.

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They have no experience outside their sport.  They are entertainers, and nothing else.  Well, maybe wife-beaters, dog-fighters, and drug-dealers.  But that's it.

airshocker

Then do what they do and get paid like them.

Just because you can't appreciate athletic ability doesn't mean other people see them as valueless. The amount of money they make proves otherwise.

Handling balls doesn't help you in the real world.  Unless you're a woman.

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They have no experience outside their sport.  They are entertainers, and nothing else.  Well, maybe wife-beaters, dog-fighters, and drug-dealers.  But that's it.

GOGOGOGURT

Then do what they do and get paid like them.

Just because you can't appreciate athletic ability doesn't mean other people see them as valueless. The amount of money they make proves otherwise.

Handling balls doesn't help you in the real world.  Unless you're a woman.

it does when the real world will pay you millions of dollars to do it

Curious to where he thinks all the money comes from that the 'rich' earn. The 99% are the consumers, so shouldn't the 1% be thanking them for allowing their business to flourish? Its a two way road as producers and consumers both need each other. We don't exist in a vacuum. HoolaHoopMan

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Then do what they do and get paid like them.

Just because you can't appreciate athletic ability doesn't mean other people see them as valueless. The amount of money they make proves otherwise.

lostrib

Handling balls doesn't help you in the real world.  Unless you're a woman.

it does when the real world will pay you millions of dollars to do it

Their loss.

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Then do what they do and get paid like them.

Just because you can't appreciate athletic ability doesn't mean other people see them as valueless. The amount of money they make proves otherwise.

thegerg

Handling balls doesn't help you in the real world.  Unless you're a woman.

I didn't know being a sodomite payed so well.

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it does when the real world will pay you millions of dollars to do it

thegerg

Their loss.

I think $250k/year should be tops for NFL players.

I mean seriously, what would you even do with money past that point? I can't think of anything.

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it does when the real world will pay you millions of dollars to do it

thegerg

Their loss.

Last time I checked, if I gave money to a dude who had footballs, I never gained anything.

They have no experience outside their sport.  They are entertainers, and nothing else.  Well, maybe wife-beaters, dog-fighters, and drug-dealers.  But that's it.

GOGOGOGURT

I think it's note worthy that Ayn Rand blackmailed a man half her age into sleeping with her.

and that she's very very ugly.

Poor guy.

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Ayn Rand is both an abomination to philosophy and literature.

lostrib

And she was ugly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZmVRI8Ptv4

I think $250k/year should be tops for NFL players.

I mean seriously, what would you even do with money past that point? I can't think of anything.

THE_DRUGGIE

Where would you prefer that extra money that the players generate go to then?

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[QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"] Hey, don't even compare professional athletes to reality TV stars. Being a professional athlete is a ton of work. More work than most people will ever do. Any trashy person can be a reality TV star.lostrib

They get paid millions of dollars to do what most of us do for fun. My heart does not bleed for them.

It's still a lot of work and time

[QUOTE="GOGOGOGURT"]

They have no experience outside their sport.  They are entertainers, and nothing else.  Well, maybe wife-beaters, dog-fighters, and drug-dealers.  But that's it.

Aljosa23

Duh, I don't know, like a million bucks?  Overpaid crybabies.  You're a crybaby too, you're just not paid.

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I think $250k/year should be tops for NFL players.

I mean seriously, what would you even do with money past that point? I can't think of anything.

Aljosa23

Where would you prefer that extra money that the players generate go to then?