Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is calling for billionaires like himself to be subject to higher taxes.
In a New York Times op-ed, he said higher taxes would "help generate trillions of dollars" needed to advance important causes, like fighting climate change.Marc Benioff, Co-CEO of SalesForce speaking at the WEF in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22, 2019.co-CEO Marc Benioff is calling for the establishment of a "new capitalism" that's paid for in part by taxing billionaires like himself.
To achieve these goals, Benioff proposed a new system that "includes higher taxes on the wealthiest among us." "Nationally, increasing taxes on high-income individuals like myself would help generate the trillions of dollars that we desperately need to improve education and health care and fight climate change," Benioff wrote.by the Business Roundtable, a group made up of CEOs from several top U.S. corporations, to steer the focus of corporations away from maximizing shareholder value.
Benioff also isn't the first billionaire to say America's wealthiest should pay higher taxes. Legendary investor Warren Buffett and
The treasury is headquartered at Treasury Building 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C., you’re welcome to send a check whenever you’d like Marc
Awesome. He can do it now. Nobody’s stopping him from writing a huge check to the US Treasury. Go for it Marc.
How much in stock based compensation has Marc sold to date?
I want to see his voluntary check to the US Treasury. He is full of shit until he strokes off a check. For more taxes than he owes. Hypocrite Benioff MAGA
Billionaires are bad for the societies ....
Why don’t you pay your employees more rather than give it to the government ? Bloody hypocritical a**holes
It's a nice sentiment by Marc to say this...Buffet & Gates have said the same thing. However i really worry that a wealth tax will not achieve this end...tbh i don't see dynasties coming forth & revealing all their legal loopholes developed over 100 years..VAT is better choice
Benioff is yanggang! AndrewYang FreedomDividend
Sounds like a VAT system to me...
Bill suit
AndrewTalley15 He’s welcome to pay higher taxes if he wants. Who’s stopping him? Just more hypocrisy from the left.
Just send the IRS a check.
Sounds nice, until you realize how inefficient the recipient of those dollars is in comparison with the private market in delivering value to citizens.
Legacy of conservative baby boomers - billionaires paying a smaller percentage in taxes than the working poor ruining our roads and schools. They are truly the worst generation because of their greed.
so what's holding Benioff back from contributing more taxes now? If it makes him feel better he can pay unlimited taxes immediately.
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More money for government to waste?
how about we just shame billionaires into giving more money away.
So the government is wiser at spending the money?
They technically are supposed to pay higher taxes. The loopholes make it so they don't.
He should lead by example and send a $1 Billion check into the Treasury. He'll do that, right? /crickets
Mark can donate directly to the treasury any amount
So cut a check to the treasury for additional taxes, no one is stopping you a$$hole
Since there's always trillion dollars tax cuts, they're ok with that i guess.
Does he mean pay 'even higher taxes'?
Ravenworks Wealth Tax: {-$13,087,171.05} Properties: {-$8,065,057.47}
He looks like a surly chef
It's how America grew after WW2.
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