'It should be a like a corporation,' Perkins says. Perkins: $1 million = 1 million votes

Billionaire venture capitalist Tom Perkins thinks if you pay $1 million in taxes, you should get a million votes.

When asked how he would save the world at the Commonwealth Club INFORUM on Thursday, Perkins said, “The Tom Perkins system is ‘You don’t get to vote unless you pay a dollar of taxes.’ But what I really think is it should be a like a corporation, you pay a million dollars in taxes you should get a million votes. How’s that?”


Again, Perkins apologized for using the word “Kristallnacht” in his Wall Street Journal comparison of the 1 percent to the persecution of the Jews in Nazi Germany, but maintained that the parallel still holds.

( Earlier on POLITICO: No tax reform? Don't tell these guys)

“I spilled a little more blood than I planned. But I’m not sorry I did it,” he said.

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