So much for liberals that spin yarns about how people like say Warren Buffet and Bill Gates and others feel that they aren't taxed enough.
Complete and total bunk, now debunked by this article (from The Washington Times):
'Tax Me More Fund' raises little revenue
RICHMOND — State lawmakers can rule out Virginian's offering up more of their hard-earned money to fix the $1.4 billion budget shortfall Gov. Tim Kaine announced this week.
At least that is what a peek at the so-called "Tax Me More Fund" suggests.
Since its inception in 2002, the fund has collected a total of $10,217.04.
It was established a year after Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee challenged proponents of higher taxes to contribute to a similar program when he was governor of Arkansas.
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"It's amazing how people want to tax other people for every idea they have, and they are not willing to step up to the plate themselves, said Delegate M. Kirkland Cox, Colonial Heights Republican and a sponsor of the legislation that created the Virginia fund. "It's a real good way to make a point."
Some years have been better than others for the fund.
Public generosity reached its high point in 2003 when Virginians forked over $6,602. The low point was in 2006, when the state received a measly $19.36.
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In his book, "From Hope to Higher Ground," Mr. Huckabee said that from 2001 to 2005, a total of 56 persons made contributions to the Arkansas fund, totaling $2,077.
"It was a potent way of pointing out the hypocrisy of the insincere vocal minority who proved by their failure to write a check that they wanted more taxes to be paid, but they wanted them to be paid by someone other than themselves," Mr. Huckabee said in the book.
ing hypocrites on the left. Ok, maybe not lieing, but over dramatizing and overly optimistic in their characterizations of the rich and famous and their own plans to help save the world by giving up more money to the government.
As shown in the article, when given the opportunity to let the government have more money, people just can't make themselves do it. No one wants to be taxed, and everyone assumes that the wealthy above them will pay more so they won't have to pay themselves.
I'm reminded here of people that go out to lunches with friends and co-workers and never reach to grab the check and cover the meal, or do reach for the check but only so they can find out exactly how much their own portion of the meal was and leave just that amount, never mind any gratuity, never mind covering any missing amounts for those that didn't quite bring enough to cover their portion. Just enough for themselves and let everyone else (including the servers, wait staff, hostess, chefs, etc.) get their own elsewhere.
Disgusting.