Ex - Google employee asks obama for higher taxes, gop response makes no sense

and the more awkward moment for obama add a link in town hall an individual a former google employee who has been identified as doug edwards is a former consumer marketing head at uh... google he stated he actually asked the president to raise his taxes and some people said this is clearly a plant and of course there is no evidence of that but here's the video here is that in exchange about thank you mister president i don't have a job but that's because i've been lucky enough to live in silicon valley uh... for awhile and uh... work for small startup there down the street here that did quite well so amount would put wrote my question is would you please raise my taxes the really much to have the country to continue to invest and things like programs infrastructure and job training programs that made it possible for me to get to where i and it kills me to see congress not supporting the expiration of the tax cuts that have been benefiting so many of us for so long uh... i think that needs to change i hope that you'll stay strong and and doing of all i preserve what uh... what was the uh... start up by the way you are development set such as well and okay upset you know what the conservative response to this was the conservatives once was rich guys if you want to donate more money to the government in taxes the u_s_ government accepts contributions you can just go on line to pay dot gov worker in email the bureau of public that and send the money when you know i don't think that's gonna solve our our crisis you know it certainly not but also it's the completely wrong way to go about it i mean i'm actually not for raising taxes the way many liberals are and we're going to get into this on the bones show through talking about some other stuff i actually want low taxes i have given the choice i would rather pay less than more and in some areas now i actually feel like my taxes are too high i find them annoyingly high but idon't look at it as just a number i'm saying what are we getting right what are we getting relative to what other countries also get as a result of their tax payments and if we were spending less on defense and weapons and the military and replacing weapons that we bought and then never used so they expired and we have to get new weapons again we could be doing much more with the taxes that we currently pay that's that's step one step to though is that this idea that if if rich people want to donate more money to the government they can pay more taxes that's not going to solve anything and it really circumvented the root of the issue which is what atlanta i i don't know how to quantify the readers at the number of different issues here if that's what it depends on if it depends on people just sending in more money to the government i guess people don't really care about supporting those programs right because people aren't sending it people are choosing to send in the extra money well like you said most would rather pay less taxes would you send in money if you had million if you're sitting on millions and millions of dollars no because i would assume that it's not going to go to anything i care about i would assume it's going to go disproportionately towards defense spending and spending on wars and that it's not actually going to help anyone or anything maybe someone would come to me and say well if you're reducing the debt by any amount essentially in the long run is going to help you ana believe that i don't believe that at all however there's a separate issue here which is is it's there four people who make a ton of money to not pay their fair share through loopholes and through different advantages that they can take and that's completely separate from send the government checks if you feel like a two completely separate issue absolutely you make more you have to pay more