HddJ, if you have no income, yeah I do. Wouldn't it remedy the problem?

Suggesstions???

I don't think there should be an estate tax at all. Our children are going to need this wealth just to pay the bills all us idiots are leaving them.

For dimwits like Bluering the current, extreme concentration of wealth is presented as the natural order of things. Being dimwits they buy into the idea that any attempt to change this "natural order" is theft, tyranny, socialism etc etc blah blah blah.

In fact the process of wealth concentration is a direct and predictable consequence of

a) free market fundamentalism and its policy prescriptions

in combination with

b) A political system that responds primarily to money and its sources, rather than the needs of the american people as a whole.

The extent of wealth concentration in America is a problem. Any thinking person would be interested in understanding its causes and its consequences.

Incidentally, dirtbag, by taxing income, we tax the change in income, thereby doing what we can to make sure that fewer people break through into the plutocracy.

If we had an honest and equal government all throughout our lives instead of
this monstrosity we have created no one would begrudge what another man
earns.

Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply. Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.

True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.

The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

Dec 16, 2010 - 08:27pm PT
HDDJ,

You want money. Go and make it. Stop telling people you have better uses for theirs.

That is plunder talk. You sound like a tyrant.


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