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Phil Mickelson Mulls Retirement After Tax Increases

Golfer Phil Mickelson is unhappy with the tax situation in California and the U.S.:

I’m not sure what exactly, you know, I’m going to do yet. I’ll probably talk about it more in depth next week. I’m not going to jump the gun, but there are going to be some [changes]. There are going to be some drastic changes for me because I happen to be in that zone that has been targeted both federally and by the state and, you know, it doesn’t work for me right now. So I’m going to have to make some changes.

If you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate’s 62, 63%. So I’ve got to make some decisions on what I’m going to do.

UPDATE: Larry Ruane writes:

I was watching Ed Schultz on MSNBC the other day as he was talking about what an ingrate Mickelson is for not wanting to pay taxes, and one of the points he made against Phil was that taxes paid for the education of people who could then earn enough money to watch golf and allow Mickelson to earn a lot of money. I kid you not.

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  • Anonymous

    Quite the rambler, but the point is strong, maybe he’ll move to Argentina or Costa Rica.
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  • Anonymous

    Phil is perfect example. Raising tax rates on the wealthy doesn’t necessarily translate into increased revenue for the government. Any rational person would seek to minimize the taxes he pays within the context of the existing tax code.

  • Anonymous

    I was watching Ed Schultz on MSNBC the other day as he was talking about what an ingrate Mickelson is for not wanting to pay taxes, and one of the points he made against Phil was that taxes paid for the education of people who could then earn enough money to watch golf and allow Mickelson to earn a lot of money. I kid you not.

  • http://twitter.com/royals4lyfe Eddie Royal

    I wonder if there will ever be a consensus from progressives on how much money a person can legally make

  • Anonymous

    Huh. And Mickelson’s a lefty. ;)

  • Libertarian Jerry

    The question to ask is how much of the taxes Mr..Mickelson pays goes to run the schools and how much of his taxes goes to pay for waste,corruption,welfare,wars and interest on an unsustainable debt? Isn’t it amazing that in the “land of the free” and the “home of the brave” a group of politicians,who earned nothing,can tell citizens how much of the fruits of their labor they are “allowed” to keep.