10-29-2018, 03:35 PM
(10-29-2018, 03:16 PM)G.Irish Wrote: You get taxed on just about everything you buy though. You don't get bent out of shape when you pay 10 cents tax on a candy bar because you can easily afford a candy bar. If you've got enough money to afford a Chiron (the Veyron is ugly), you have enough money to pay the tax. $200k is a lot of money but when you're worth 8 or 9 figures it's not that much money relative to your net worth.And if you sell your candy bar to your buddy, he doesn't pay tax on it. (Unless you buy it as a re-seller, which then you dont pay tax)
And if you keep your candy bar for a year, you dont pay more tax on it. (And if you did, the percentage of that tax would not go up if you had a godiva candy bar)
I would hope that a car enthusiast of all people would understand that "ordinary" people who love cars should be able to save their pennies and splurge on an expensive car without being labelled "rich" and overtaxed.
Every year in October I want to sell my Lotus due to the tax bill and its not even worth all that much.
warning: tangent ahead
And thats before we even get into the fact that 40% of the planet doesnt even have clean water to drink. Almost every single American is RICH in a human perspective. This "tax the rich" attitude is just a populist excuse to steal people's money out of greed and jealousy.