Kim Kardashian targeted by California tax campaign

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[astridmyrna]

The Democratic governor said he has found that most wealthy people are not too excited about increasing their own taxes...

Well, of course not. Why should the wealthy pay extra so that their poorer fellow Californians can afford higher education and a roof over their head during hard times? /still incredibly bitter at her "Democratic" governor and his austerity cuts

However, I think an idea for a campaign video would be her wedding and a price tag on everything there (including the sponsored items she got for free). Perhaps find a couple of items that would be the amount KK would have to pay in taxes and have it say "The cost of Dress #2 could keep the LAUSD well funded for a year" or "The cost of this hideous cake could fund X amount of food banks across the state."

[littlelauren86]

However, I think an idea for a campaign video would be her wedding and a price tag on everything there (including the sponsored items she got for free). Perhaps find a couple of items that would be the amount KK would have to pay in taxes and have it say "The cost of Dress #2 could keep the LAUSD well funded for a year" or "The cost of this hideous cake could fund X amount of food banks across the state."

I definitely wouldn't mind seeing something like that. Though I'm sure in some circles they would just go around calling her a "job creator" or whatnot.

[yilei]

I was thinking the exact same thing when I saw this article.

It would have been nice if we would have been able to tax her entire wedding. Surely a percentage of that could have saved a couple of schools.

[seasight]

Classy.

[mschaos]

don't you mean Klassy?

[hinoema]

Personally, I'd rather address the culture of wage discrepancy, the poor labor laws and the privileges of corporate power that allow people like this to accumulate vast fortunes from the work of the vast majority of others, first.

[skellington1]

Except that changing culture and established law his harder than shifting a few bucks around. We definitely need to be working for greater wage equality and lower poverty, but in the mean time, people that rely on welfare programs are hurting, badly. A little redistribution would actually make a huge difference to a lot of people. There's nothing pointless about that.

[kaowolfie]

I... really, you know, we can redistribute their taxes into welfare programs while we work to reduce the problems that cause the need for those programs. It's really easy to raise taxes compared to solving problems like wage discrepancy, so it makes sense to use the increased rich people taxes as a stopgap measure while we work on the longer term solution.

[atomic_joe2]

Just in, response from the Kardashian camp: "Tax? is that the name of a new rapper?"

[keeni84]

So Kim Kardashian's personal spending habits and wedding have something to do with the failure of the Californian economic system?

I also hate how the article says she was "just" married for 10 weeks. Eugh, it's not your life people. Get over it.