Billionaire Mark Cuban: One of the 'most patriotic' things you can do is get 'obnoxiously rich' (via CNBCMakeIt)
. He's gotten rich, and that, he says, this is one of the most patriotic things anyone can do.
On Monday, Cuban shared a link to a blog post he wrote in 2011 called, "The Most Patriotic Thing You Can Do.""Make a boatload of money. Pay your taxes. Lots of taxes. Hire people. Train people. Pay people. Spend money on rent, equipment, services. Pay more taxes," Cuban writes. "When you make a sh--load of money, do something positive with it. If you are smart enough to make it, you will be smart enough to know where to put it to work," he says.
Cuban, who sold his company Broadcast.com to Yahoo in 1999 for $5.7 billion in stock, now owns the Dallas Mavericks NBA team. The billionaire tweeted a link to his 2011 blog post in response to a tweet asking if the billionaire was "scared of paying higher taxes?""Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes. I don't. I find it Patriotic," Cuban writes in the 2011 post. "Get out there and make a boatload of money.
Cuban urges people to get so "obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write. Your 2nd thought will be 'what a great problem to have,' and your 3rd should be a recognition that in paying your taxes you are helping to support millions of Americans that are not as fortunate as you."The combined fortunes of
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