WHEN Maine Gov. Paul LePage laid out his plan to eliminate the state income tax this month, he faced an unlikely opponent: Stephen King. The horror novelist, who paid $1.4 million in taxes in 2013, told a radio station (one of his own) that he's glad to do so. "We see our taxes as a way of paying back the state that has given us so much," he said. "State taxes pay for state services. There's just no way around it."
King has been an unabashed supporter of higher (yup, higher) taxes for years, suggesting that the 28 percent income tax he pays should be more like 50 percent. In a piece for the Daily Beast (titled, appropriately, "Tax Me, for F@%&'s Sake!"), he pointed out that he voluntarily gives away $4 million a year to various public services around the state — libraries, fire departments and schools, otherwise known as the type of things taxes are supposed to fund.
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King has been an unabashed supporter of higher (yup, higher) taxes for years, suggesting that the 28 percent income tax he pays should be more like 50 percent. In a piece for the Daily Beast (titled, appropriately, "Tax Me, for F@%&'s Sake!"), he pointed out that he voluntarily gives away $4 million a year to various public services around the state — libraries, fire departments and schools, otherwise known as the type of things taxes are supposed to fund.
Linky https://www.northjersey.com/opinion/opinion-guest-writers/the-horror-stephen-king-likes-to-pay-taxes-1.1301216