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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (880475)	8/15/2015 5:53:24 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577893

Maybe we should have a cap on speaking fees so the Clinton's don't make so much that way. And a cap on athlete's and actor's and artist's and writer's incomes. Letting them make too much produces a wealth gap. Personally, I dom't see big problem with a wealth gap per se .... Bill Gates being wealthy doesn't hurt me at all. Or anyone else. We must reduce the wealth gap, and expand the higher standard-of-living to more Americans. No working American should have to go to a food bank, Do you feel the same way about food stamps? no child who merits it, should have to choose full-time work, or go into massive debt for an education Why not tell the 'child' to economize, live at home and go to a local more affordable school? that will ultimately advance the economy many fold over a privileged student who parties their way through the system on Daddy's gold ... Bill Gates came from a well off family of lawyers and bankers who sent him to an expensive prep school and an Ivy League college and he dropped out of school without graduating. He didn't have a definite plan of study at Harvard and basically just spent a lot of time on the school's computer. Privileged but it can be argued he nevertheless advanced the economy. We must move toward long term health and sustainability over the wasteful and destructive memes of conspicuous material wealth. Veblen nailed it in the Theory of the Leisure Class. You're probably real offended by Teslas - classic conspicuous material wealth. Expensive cars for billionaires built with welfare from the middle class. And don't you live in San Francisco, the center of conspicuous material wealth? Personally, I don't see what's wrong with conspicuous material wealth if that's what people want. Why not let people do what they want? Even if some lefty crank calls it wasteful.

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (880475)	8/16/2015 12:16:18 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577893

"We must reduce the wealth gap" Do you mind explaining why you believe this is true? And just how you think you're going to do that? It is almost as though you are under the mistaken impression that you can somehow reduce the wealth of the successful without adversely affecting the wealth of the impoverished. As though, perhaps, you believe the wealthy having wealth is the cause of poverty. You do realize that is not all the case, right?