Waiting For That Rocket

I try to avoid politics on my blogs, but sometimes I can’t help it. And Lord knows there’s a lot of politicking going on these days. But what’s inspired me today are taxes.

So I work in retail. As I have for twenty years so I know I’m paid fairly well for what I do. That being said I lose 1/3 of my pay every two weeks to taxes and benefits. The benefits aren’t my gripe. It’s the taxes.

I’m losing 20% of my paycheck every two weeks to taxes. Don’t get me wrong. I will happily pay taxes if it keeps roofs over head, food on plates, munitions and protection in soldiers’ hands.

Where my gripe is that someone who is a billionaire isn’t paying the same percentage. Not even saying, “Hold them to 20%.” Imagine if billionaires were taxed 10% of their earnings. Think they’d have enough left over to survive on?

Taxing billionaires at even a fraction of what I (we, you) are taxed could fund education, social security, Medicare and Medicaid, without breaking a sweat.

Again. I am happy to do my bit to fund social services. I’m not able to donate millions of dollars to nonprofits so my several thousand dollars in taxes will have to do my bit for me.

I just ask that before you get up in arms about taxing the wealthy on a similar scale to the scale you are taxed on you crunch some numbers. A single billionaire would still be walking home with 900 million end of year.

Inflation is horrid right now, but they should be able to shop at Target still.