In free societies, when governments want rich people to pay more in taxes, governments need to motivate them with a sense of purpose.
They want rich nations to pledge 1.5% of their GDP, as well as meeting the widely accepted target for aid of 0.7% of GDP.
Polls suggest that lots of voters want the rich to pay more tax.
We want the rich to contribute more to -or take less of- Medicare and Social Security in order to protect middle class benefits.
Yes, they want to be rich and famous, but they want success simply to fall into their laps.
Americans want to be rich, and as evidenced by periods of high growth and low unemployment, they want to work.
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And I think that if you want to be rich, you never have enough.
Just as those who do want to be rich have to leave us alone to do such contemplating.
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If there are some in our society who really do believe that they want to be rich then we should let them go off and do that.
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They will not want to challenge rich locals for documentation.
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Most of them want to get rich.
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Some rich people favor politicians who want taxes to be higher on rich people like themselves.
What does it matter if rich individuals want to spend their enormous wealth on a club?
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As Jack Kemp used to say, if you want to soak the rich, cut tax rates.
You want to tax the rich to pay for that, is that what you're saying?
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They want more leeway than rich members to subsidise their homegrown industries and tax foreign competitors.
Rich countries want firm rules on government procurement, to replace the vague existing code.
That is why Jack Kemp always used to say if you want to soak the rich, cut tax rates.
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Poorer countries want greater access to rich-country textile markets, and assurances that anti-dumping rules will be wielded much less freely.
"We want to have a rich selection of content on them to interest consumers, otherwise they're just doorstops, " he says.
But if enough rich tourists want to behold a whale shark, eating them may soon look like a foolish option.
The central question for egalitarians, then, should be: What motivates the rich to want to give more of their wealth to taxes?
The question for lefties, then, should be: What motivates the rich to want to give more of their wealth to charities and taxes?
And that means that somebody who has a great idea and selling a great product or service, we want them to get rich.
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Emerging countries want governments in the rich world to pay huge sums from their coffers for adaptation to, and mitigation of, climate change.
Maybe this will give you a different perspective on who you want to be making rich, your own family, or the landlords and the banks.
"If I call (spokesman) Dave Winchell today and say I want to talk to Rich Preall, within a half an hour Rich Preall is calling me back, " he said.
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