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The Wealth Gap

Does it matter Millionaire - Billionaire?


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Nobody should be allowed to have a billion dollars. We need an upper-upper tax bracket of 100%.

People should be "allowed" whatever they can legally accumulate. Their income is really none of your business.
 
Μολὼν λαβέ;1063127614 said:
Are you suggesting the government should take whatever they make over a certain amount? If so they would spend it like they spend all the other tax payer contributions and ask for more, just like they do now.

I can see where it would be bad for business and the economy if people were limited to a certain income. Bank executives could work for say, six months, shut down the bank, then open it again at the beginning of the next tax season.

Do you really think anyone would work for free to keep the ship afloat?

If you won't work for 12 months, the board will simply fire you and hire someone who will work. That's how easy that is. The shareholders still run the company, you know.

As for people not wanting to work hard - if 50 million dollars isn't enough for you, good grief. No sympathy at all.
 
People should be "allowed" whatever they can legally accumulate. Their income is really none of your business.

When they spend it affecting elections, it becomes my business. John F Kennedy should never have been president, for example. Neither should George W Bush.
 
When they spend it affecting elections, it becomes my business. John F Kennedy should never have been president, for example. Neither should George W Bush.

So if a rich person can prove that he hasn't spent a dime on politics, you ok with not confiscating their wealth?
 
No. Nobody needs a billion dollars.

one of the good things about being wealthy ( I am merely a multi millionaire-not a billionaire) is that we don't really have to worry about what you think we 'need'

methinks if someone who is a billionaire did have that worry, he'd have the resources to "make you go away" if you get my drift:mrgreen:
 
No. Nobody needs a billion dollars.

That's the European in you talking. We're (hopefully) not opposed to great wealth and success here. In fact, many of us still believe that to be a laudable thing.
 
No. Nobody needs a billion dollars.

were does anyone get the authority to make that decision?

if i cant do it, when how can government do it, since it is me and others like me, who elect them.

i cannot give a power to government, since i myself do not have such a power to give.
 
one of the good things about being wealthy ( I am merely a multi millionaire-not a billionaire) is that we don't really have to worry about what you think we 'need'

methinks if someone who is a billionaire did have that worry, he'd have the resources to "make you go away" if you get my drift:mrgreen:

And, while I make decent money, I am never going to be a bazillionair. I don't have the tolerance for risk that's necessary to attain that. Even knowing I'll never likely become one of the super rich, I don't resent or covet the wealth others have.
 
one of the good things about being wealthy ( I am merely a multi millionaire-not a billionaire) is that we don't really have to worry about what you think we 'need'

methinks if someone who is a billionaire did have that worry, he'd have the resources to "make you go away" if you get my drift:mrgreen:

I love how people mouth off over the internet. What you said here is something you could only get away with given the anonymity of the internet.
 
That's the European in you talking. We're (hopefully) not opposed to great wealth and success here. In fact, many of us still believe that to be a laudable thing.

Wealth and success are laudable when they're earned in an honest way. If they're earned at the expense of someone else, or at the expense of the environment, then they're not so laudable at all.

Likewise, there's no pat on the back deserved for someone who merely inherited their wealth. Generational wealth does nothing to help society and, as a matter of fact, it can be quite destructive.
 
I love how people mouth off over the internet. What you said here is something you could only get away with given the anonymity of the internet.

you have chosen Libertarian - Right , by what you have stated, that position is not possible.
 
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