once you’d tax everybody more than they already are you’d complain that the powers that be are spending your money poorly, and you’d be right.

if you wanna complain about something, complain that the armed services suck up 1/4 of the annual budget and mismanaged healthcare and social security take up 1/2.

since you won’t be the one deciding where the money you wanna take from private citizens goes, try to convince the legislative branch to spend some of the above mentioned money on the programs you care about, if that’s successful, which is doubtful, than your argument is at least justifiable,

that doesn’t include the fact that the people you wanna take money from already pay more taxes in one year than a lower to middle class person would pay in ten.

taxes are the worst.

get rid of three aircraft carriers and use that money to fund stem cell research, get ride of three more and use that money to invest in alternative energy.

if you’ve ever paid more than twenty grand in taxes in one year (and weren’t even close to being a millionaire) you’d hate taxes too.

You falsely assume people that make tons of money hurt people in the process.

yeah it happens but people spend unemployment money on illegal drugs, but just cause some do doesn’t mean we’re gonna punish the whole lot of them.

this is a free society, you can make money anyway you want within the laws agreed upon by our democracy, if you wanna help out the folks that are down and out, make more money
or start a charity, don’t complain that people you’ve never met should forfeit their money cause you think they have too much.

manage the appropriation of funds, don’t steal more money from private citizens and feed it to a a group of people you’d complain about in other conversations about other political issues, politicians don’t spend money the way Mother Teresa or Albert Einstein would. they’re not that caring and they’re not that smart!

“Let’s call this toxic idea by its proper name. It’s a tax on performance. It’s a way to punish the high-achievers in our economy in the hopes that we might be able to discourage them from trying so hard and achieving so much.”

Performance? Really? We are to understand that these hedgefund managers are 100,000 times more valuable to the human race, or at least American society, than teachers? I really don’t think so.

No one really understands why Wall Street types make as much as they do. it’s a genuine mystery, since it clearly has nothing to do with supply and demand (there are far more people applying for each opening on Wall Street than for most teaching jobs). Back in 1989, Michael Lewis in “Liar’s Poker” couldn’t figure out why bond traders made so much money. Now it’s hedge fund managers. Please don’t try and tell me the high salaries are merit based. That’s a bunch of baloney.