{"id":4651,"date":"2014-02-14T09:17:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T14:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4651"},"modified":"2014-02-14T09:17:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T14:17:45","slug":"innumeracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4651","title":{"rendered":"Innumeracy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You don’t have to be good at maths to be rich<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0Here’s Godwinizer Tom Perkins<\/a> on taxing the “1 percent” (from TPM<\/a>):<\/p>\n

“The fear is wealth tax, higher taxes, higher death taxes — just more taxes until there is no more 1%,<\/strong>” he said, as quoted by CNN Money. “And that that will creep down to the 5% and then the 10%.<\/strong>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In addition to failing to understand marginal tax rates and basic math, this also a slippery slope. \u00c2\u00a0This is probably worse than his proposal that every dollar of tax paid ought to equal a vote:<\/p>\n

“The Tom Perkins system is: You don’t get to vote unless you pay a dollar of taxes,” Perkins responded, as quoted by\u00c2\u00a0CNNMoney<\/a>. “But what I really think is, it should be like a corporation. You pay a million dollars in taxes, you get a million votes. How’s that?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It might be easier just to give people who pay no taxes less than an entire vote, say 3\/5ths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You don’t have to be good at maths to be rich. \u00c2\u00a0Here’s Godwinizer Tom Perkins on taxing the “1 percent” (from TPM): “The fear is wealth tax, higher taxes, higher death taxes — just more taxes until there is no more 1%,” he said, as quoted by CNN Money. “And that that will creep down … Continue reading Innumeracy<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[741,1851,1968,1843],"class_list":["post-4651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-godwins-law","tag-innumeracy","tag-slippery-slope","tag-tom-perkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4652,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions\/4652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}