Billionaire who compared the Occupy protests to 'Kristallnacht' now thinks the rich should get more votes than the poor - and some people should get NONE

Tom Perkins, 81, said that those who pay more taxes should be entitled to have more say in how the government is run



Gained notoriety for an op ed where he compared the 'progressive war on the one per cent' to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany

Said the smashing of banks windows during the Occupy protests was similar to the coordinated attacks on Jewish businesses in 1938



The retired venture capitalist is worth $8billion

A billionaire venture capitalist has made the controversial suggestion that the rich should get more votes than the poor- and some shouldn't be allowed to have a say at all.

Tom Perkins, whose personal net worth is believed to be around $8billion, has suggested that only American taxpayers should be allowed to vote in the U.S. and that those who pay more in taxes should be allotted more votes.

'The Tom Perkins system is: You don't get to vote unless you pay a dollar of taxes,' he said at an event in San Francisco on Thursday.

Speaking his mind: Tom Perkins said that the rich deserve more voting rights than those who do not pay taxes

Unrealistic: Perkins admitted that even he did not see it as a feasible plan, opting to provoke instead of propose

'But what I really think is, it should be like a corporation. You pay a million dollars in taxes, you get a million votes. How's that?'

Mr Perkins admitted that even he did not see it as a feasible plan, opting to provoke instead of propose.

'I intended to be outrageous, and it was,' he said after his time on the stage was over, according to CNN Money.

The latest suggestion is far from his first outrageous comment, as he gained infamy last month following an op-ed letter where he compared the Occupy protests to Kristallnacht- the series of coordinated attacks on Jewish businesses at the beginning of the Holocaust.



Perkins, 81, sparked criticism when he likened the Nazi party's war on Jews to what he called 'the progressive war on the American one per cent, namely the 'rich',' in a letter published Saturday in the Wall Street Journal.

'Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930,' he wrote, referring to the 1938 attack on Jews in Nazi Germany and Austria. 'Is its descendent 'progressive' radicalism unthinkable now?'

Perkins has since apologized for the analogy, but did not distance himself from the point he was trying to make.

In danger: The 'creative one per cent' says Perkins, is being threatened by raising taxes

Comparisons: Mr Perkins referenced the Kristallnacht attacks on Jews in Germany in 1938





'I deeply apologize to you and anyone who has mistaken my reference to Kristallnacht as a sign of overt or latent anti-Semitism,' he said in an interview Monday on Bloomberg Television. 'This is not the case.'

He reiterated his belief in the danger of discriminating against the richest Americans, whom he said were also the nation's leading job creators.

'Maybe you have to put up with a little techno-geek arrogance to get the results of those folks' thinking,' he said in response to questions about whether San Francisco's technology elite lived in a bubble.

At the Thursday event, called Inforum held at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club, Perkins spoke more specifically about how the tendancy to look towards the rich could radically change the country's economic structure.

'The fear is wealth tax, higher taxes, higher death taxes -- just more taxes until there is no more 1%. And that that will creep down to the 5% and then the 10%,' he said.

Protests: Mr Perkins also discusses the protests in San Francisco against Google buses and tech workers driving up the area's cost of living

Lately, resentment toward that group has led to protests.

The firm Perkins co-founded, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, tweeted that 'Tom Perkins has not been involved in KPCB in years. We were shocked by his views expressed today in the WSJ and do not agree.'

'They chose to throw me under the bus,' Perkins said on Monday about the firm, which has gone through a few years of lackluster returns and is battling a former partner in a gender-discrimination and retaliation lawsuit.

'As I've distanced myself form the firm, there's been a corresponding decline,' he said.