Could be somewhat the culture there. But yeah lack of judgement.

Compelling stuff.

By the same token I don't see any problems with stabbing people, because only the ones being stabbed are complaining. The guys with the knives seem fine with it.

@Stevo_the_gamer: Nothing wrong with expecting taxes to be paid on ALL income. That's not taking from the rich but they've been taking from the rest of America long enough.

If the top 1% was able to be taxed out of all the wealth they have in speculative markets, real estate, and other tax dodgy shit, they would be able to provide trillions in revenue instantly without a single change to their current income or lifestyle.

If the bottom 99% was taxed for that same amount there would be mass panic and economic crash, as everyone went into horrible crippling debt and then burn down all the billionaire doomsday mansions.

That doesn't sound like "any limit seems rather arbitrary" to me.

At a certain point it just doesn't matter how wealthy you get, you won't even really notice increasing wealth anymore, and the concept of how much money you actually have falls apart.

Put another way, if you are trying to build a moat of fire around a mansion to keep out the poors, it's not arbitrary anymore, you should be taxed into oblivion.

I don't know, where do you think the limit should be set?

Someone smarter than I am can probably come up with a formula where a CEO get's X % as salary, Y % as stock options, and Z % as bonus (be it performance bonus or a golden parachute), but then there is a hard cap if X+Y+Z exceeds a total % of the companies profit *shrug*

But if you want my simple answer, I'd say...I don't know, how about we cap at $5 million a year? Let's start there.

Before you go defending the rich, let me ask you: do you know what the difference is between $1 million and $1 billion? It's pretty much $1 billion. Let that sink in...especially after you think about just how much you could do with $1 million.

Sincerely,

Comrade Bojangles

PS: EAT THE RICH 😈

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This is why billionaires shouldn't exist. No one should have that much money, wealth, and power. No one should be so enormous in that way they bring others into their orbit, so they say "We can't let _ fail, he is too important". If the most you could have was someone with a few million, you're no longer too big too fail: instead, you're too little to risk one's neck for. You screw up, you're done.

Apologies to all the mega-yacht manufacturers out there, but that's just how I feel🙄

I swear to god, no matter the outcome here, if at the end of this ordeal when the lawsuits are done and in 10-20 years Trump and Biden are dead, if we don't seriously assess the way we use money in our political and legal system, we are a lost cause I am afraid.

I love our political system as a concept and I think it's something worth defending and fighting for but the way it's been used and abused is just disgraceful.

Sorry, not constructive, just needed to vent.

The concept of this is bad enough, but realizing it's true is downright depressing.

Sometimes people really do need to be saved from themselves. Inb4 "but it's their money"

Making excuses when Republicans break the law. Demonizing everyone else when they do.