is $60 million USD/year income not enough? when will the 0.01% stop complaining?

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/2013/02/01/lebron-james-contract-underpaid-miami-heat-nba/1885161/
Shall he be taxed so his take home pay is only $50,000/year? effective tax rate of 99.2%?
 
To begin with, the No Billionaires Campaign isn’t about reducing the deficit. We don’t have a debt crisis in America, we have a demand crisis. Which is why we also have an unemployment crisis. Average working people don’t have enough money to spend, so goods and services aren’t in demand, and therefore businesses aren’t hiring any new employees to make things because nobody can afford to buy them.

The No Billionaires Campaign address this demand crisis head on – instead of trying to go after the phony debt crisis. The campaign meant to redistribute wealth from those at the very top, who can’t possibly spend all the billions they’re hoarding, to working people whose new disposable income, when spent, will power the economy and generate wealth for everyone.

As billionaire Nick Hanauer has repeatedly said, “There can never be enough super-rich Americans to power a great economy.”

Though billionaires have millions of times more wealth than average Americans, they do not buy millions more groceries, or shoes, or cars. Simply put, the 400 richest American billionaires just don’t have the purchasing power of hundreds of millions of working-class Americans with a solid middle-class income.

That’s why it’s a lie to call billionaires “job creators.” Working people spending money is what creates jobs, not rich people, whether their billions are sitting in Cayman Island bank accounts or in the stock of Microsoft.
 
There is a fallacy in your question when it is related to the United States. In the US you have the Right to Life, Liberty (individual liberty, not socialism), Property and the pursuit of happiness. That means you get to keep what you earn. It is NOT up to you to decide who gets what. This is not (yet) an entitlement/socialist society. He has every right to the contract that he (or his manager) negotiated. That's how our society was founded and how it works. If you are jealous then go work. Start a business. Follow in someones footsteps on how they made their wealth but don't pi$$ and moan about someone else having something you don't. Based on your grammar and punctuation, I'm betting that you whine about your taxes as well (if you even pay them).
 
Those that have greed in their hearts will not be satisified with any amount. They will always be seeking more.
 
man, you have any idea how much a new Ferrari and insurance cost ?

i need every penny of my 60 million

you don't expect me to live like you, do you ?

geez, next your gonna want me to give up my 100 foot yacht or something
 
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