ABC World News covers the Millionaires Tax of 2012

In a segment aired on January 4th, 2012, ABC World News with Diane Sawyer covered the Millionaires Tax of 2012, a proposed ballot initiative to increase taxes on people making over $1 million in California and dedicating the revenue to K-12 and higher ed, critical public services, roads and bridges. ABC World News interviewed Courage Campaign Chair and Founder Rick Jacobs on Courage Campaign's video explaining the ballot initiative using socialite Kim Kardashian's tax rate as an example of the problem to fix. More information on the Millionaires Tax of 2012 can be found at at MillionairesTaxCA.com.

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• Courage Campaign
• Kim Kardashian
• Millionaires Tax of 2012
• taxes
• ABC World News
• Diane Sawyer
• Rick Jacobs
• California
• California ballot initiatives

[Sexybttm19]

This campaign is completely ridiculous. Richer people should NOT have to pay proportionately more taxes. It's unfair. Rich people work hard and deserve every penny they have and should have to pay the same percentage tax as poor people. It's communism to tax the rich more than the poor because it creates equality between people that work harder for their money and lazy poor people.

[Eruption360]

Love this campaign.

[PaulishMH]

Fuck Kim Kardashian

[ReliableInsider]

No one thinks the super-rich are inherently evil. They're just like everybody else.

Why should they pay a higher rate? Because nobody else can AFFORD to.

And we have to balance the state budgets. The only reason states are getting by now is that they've been bailed out every year by the Obama administration.

Warren Buffet should probably be paying a *higher* tax rate than his cleaning lady.