I assume that these are the "facts" to which you refer:
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Your articulated "solution" was a confiscatory
tax on the so-called rich.
I did? The links I provided were intended to contradict the comments in your post to AS. Here's a sample of what you said:
"Just exactly how many people in this country do you think fall into that "rich heir" category anyway? And what difference does it make to anyone else? Taxing such a person into oblivion would change nothing except make some potential Democratic voters happy because a rich guy got punished."
Essentially, the tenor of your post was that the rich were unfairly taxed and that in fact, they were threatened with taxation "into oblivion" by the Dems. Definitely, your comments were a bit hysterical and over the top.
The reality is that the rich are not being taxed "into oblivion" in this country. On the contrary, they are getting richer. Over the last 50 years, fewer of the wealthy control a greater percentage of this country's assets. Those are the facts and yet, we have to listen to the upper class conservative's whine about taxes ad nauseam.
Its clear that many in the upper class believe in democracy so long as the lower classes remember to keep their place. Well, it just don't work that way anymore. Sorry!
First, why don't you define whom you consider the "rich?"
That should be a starting point in any real analysis.
The links I posted gave one definition of rich. Whichever definition one uses really doesn't matter......the rich keep getting richer in this country.
Is it the "ultra rich" defined in one of your links?
If all their assets are handed over to the government,
please explain what that would accomplish?
Once again, and read carefully.........I did not say they should turn over all their assets to the gov't. What I did say sarcastically in one post was that heirs like the Paris Hiltons and the Bush twins should be required to turn over half their inheritances to the gov't since essentially they are rich parasites. However, I know that the likelihood of that happening is much less than finding WMDs in Iraq.
In other words, what percentage of a single year's,
or series of years, Federal budgets would
the confiscated wealth cover? Now there's a fact that I would find interesting.
Give back Bush's tax cuts and stop complaining. In this country, the rich have it the best in the world with the notable exception of Russia. They should be grateful that we allow them to get away with the schiesse that they do. |
