Stephen King: Raise My F***ing Taxes Already

He could just give the money to a cause that matters, instead of expecting others to buy weapons to enslave the weak and luxuries for the banksters.

Raising taxes on the Rich will do precisely zero to alleviate anything.

Link to actual op-ed: <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/30/stephen-king-tax-me-for-f-s-sake.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/30/stephen-kin...</a>

A tangent on the whole "job creators" thing:<p>Being rich is not the same thing as creating jobs. In a sense, it's the opposite: Every full-time equivalent's worth of income brought in is a full-time equivalent's worth of money that someone else didn't make instead. In a way, wealth is better thought-of as a measure of how many jobs the owner of a company could have created, but didn't.

Write a check to the treasury anytime you like and stop telling the rest of us how we should spend our money.<p>1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20220

Why is this showing up in the Hacker News feed?

If he's so anxious about it, why doesn't he just write a check out to the Treasury? Nobody is stopping him from giving more of his money to the government.