• SeanRenaud said on Aug 15, 2008....

  If he were replaceable he wouldn't make those millions.  If you could do what he does you'd be rich.  Though I am curious what (aside from literally hamstringing the rich by limiting their income and thus just pretty much telling them to stop working period) you would do to fix this?

• lfbno7 said on Aug 16, 2008....

  Getting a job and performing that job are two different things. Landing the job requires that you have built certain relationships with the right people. Performing the job is a different thing entirely.
  
  Given the same training and resources, a lot of us could perform many jobs that we are not in a position to land. I don't believe that the guy who manages to land the big megabucks job is necessarily the best person for that job. He's the best person at landing that job, not the best at performing it. Look at Bush. He was great at landing his job, but not so great at performing it.
  
  What I would do to fix things is to give Americans a great health care program that spares us from having to pay the premiums we now pay, focus on sales tax, shifting the burden from income tax to sales tax, lowering one while raising the other. So when you buy yourself that new jet plane each year, you are paying one hell of a lot in federal sales tax, a lot more than you are now paying in income tax after deductions.
  
  I'd make changes to the remaining income tax system to make it what it was originally supposed to be, what it was originally sold to the American people as, a tax on the rich that doesn't touch the middle class at all. I'd outlaw hidden assets such as Swiss bank accounts and offshore accounts, making all assets visible and taxable. Ours are, so why aren't theirs?
  
  I'd also blackball all business owners who close profitable American companies for the sole purpose of reopening overseas to save on labor costs, not allowing them to sell any products in America and branding them as the traitors they are.

• lfbno7 said on Aug 16, 2008....

  Another thing I'd do, to stop the flow of money upward to the filthy rich, is to lower the interest rates on credit cards. Your money is being funneled to a greedy scumbag at 17% interest, and that greedy scumbag belongs in jail for usury.

• scipio said on Aug 16, 2008....

  Ask them whether they are really happy with all their wealth? Do they enjoy good health & love of their family? Are you willing to take some of their problems and burdens? May be your answers to these questions will provide the solution to quandries..

• lfbno7 said on Aug 16, 2008....

  I'd love to be a billionnaire. Love it. I'd love to win the lottery and be a little piss-poor hundred millionnaire. Yee hah! I'd celebrate for months. Then I'd go out and pee on a poor person.

• SeanRenaud said on Aug 16, 2008....

  1.  I agree with your lowering income tax and raising sales tax. 
   
  2.  I wouldn't keep targeting the rich, that is why they move over seas.  The same goes for Swiss bank acounts.  You can only keep robbing someone for so long before they start taking action to avoid it.
   
  3.  You would cut off all foriegn trade I'm assuming?
   
  4.  I wish I new an idiot tho had 17% interest rate o the credit card, or somebody stupid enough not to pay it off on a monthly basis.  But I suppose they should borrow from the Mob.
   
  5. I'd go pee on a poor person too!  :-P

• dyingman said on Aug 16, 2008....

  Borrow from prosper.com instead.
  Let other poor saps like us get the 17%.
  
  Inflation is eroding those fat cats savings.
  It's making things tough on us, but if they're going to make enough money to STAY rich, they need to get back to work and they won't do it by lifting a finger THEMSELVES.  They're going to need to create businesses and employ people.  Given inflation and the demand for labor, we'll require a decent salary or we'll beg off.
  
  Once we get some decent money and inflation has rendered our loans to be affordable, we'll have restored some balance to the haves and have nots.  Quite by accident, the ridiculous trickle-down economics of the government over the last decade has begun taxing not teh rich's income but their very WEALTH. 
  
  If they aren't scared yet, they will be.
  They may not ever be missing a meal, but it hits em where it hurts if their next Learjet has payments that make them sweat.
  
  *DM
  
  

• SeanRenaud said on Aug 16, 2008....

  You obviously haven't paid enough attention to lbfno7's opinion in the past.  These fat cats are actually vampires.  They will suck the blood from our babies hearts before they consider eating less.

• lfbno7 said on Aug 17, 2008....

  I'd like to see a little more for the majority of the people, and a little less for the billionnaires who really don't need it anyway. In recent decades the trend has been in the other direction, squeezing the little people, fattening the billionnaires. That should be reversed. When is enough enough already? It's like we're feeding the money-addiction of mentally ill misers out of a Dickens novel. The richest man I know, a mega-multi-millionnaire, perhaps a billionnaire, in real estate, has very short arms. When he goes into a Subway or Blimpie, his arms are too short to reach his pants pocket and pull out his wallet, and somebody else has to pay the $5 for his footlong. I can see this guy in a Dickens novel, sitting in a room full of quarters, drooling over them all, polishing them with his drool, using one little tiny tissue sheet to polish them with, and cooing to them "My preciousssssssss..... gollum".

• SeanRenaud said on Aug 17, 2008....

  LoL.  To fat to reach his own pockets?  And too dumb buy a chain  or get custom tailored outfits?  My instinct is to call you a liar o this, but Bill Gates is a living example that fashion sense and business acumen don't actually go hand in hand.  Was he wildly rich to begin with and just had money to invest well or does he somehow actually sell real estate?
   
   The thing is that it's never enough and it never will be enough.  The best we can hope for is to figure out how to make it easier to spread around.  Universal Health Care is a disaster, it doesn' towrk in countries with lower population and higher income (per capita) and it doesn't work.  Of course part of this problem might be the way the global market functions, everything is so intertwined in the world that it's possible our heath care system is suffering because the rest of the world has universal health care. 

• RollingC said on Aug 18, 2008....

  Maybe they (the goverment) should first start with spreading the wealth just a little.  By limiting the lotto to just one million dollar prize per person.  If there are several million in the pot, say 10 million, then there should be 10 drawings that night thereby giving others a chance to win and any of the leftovers would go for the next drawing.  For every million in the pot  have one drawing.  
  That way it would spread the wealth around for a bit and give more people a chance.   I'd have just as much fun winning a million as winning 10 million for I don't think because I won more I'd have more fun.  Well maybe I'd enjoy it longer if I won more but I'd have the same fun.  :^p
  Rc

• SeanRenaud said on Aug 18, 2008....

  Cept it wouldn't.  That would make the problem worse.  Historically lotto winners are just like celebrities.  They are penniless in a few years.  They spend it and have no idea how to save or invest or anything.  Having ten would just decease the amount of taxes we were able to draw of them and increase the likelihood of smart people winning and gathering cash. 

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