Wednesday, December 01, 2010

‘Patriotic Millionaires’ support raising taxes but won’t voluntarily pay more to the gov’t

The Daily Caller reports:
Three of the “Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength,” a group of 90 plus millionaires who signed a letter to President Obama asking him to allow the tax cuts on people with an income of $1 million or more each year to expire, say that despite their call to raise taxes, they will not pay the government more than they are required to, nor will they cut the government a personal check.

“I pay the taxes that I am required to pay, just like everybody else,” said Ron Garret, a software engineer turned angel investor
who earned his fortune at Google. “I follow the law, I play by the rules, even when I don’t like the rules, even when I think the rules are wrong.”