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Santelli's 'Tax-The-Wealth, Not-The-Income' Plan
With the varied interests of constituents very much in mind, finding a compromise over taxation will be worse than Sisyphean in nature we suspect. CNBC's Rick Santelli offers a strawman, that gets around Norquist's 'pledge' and perhaps provides cover for both parties. The Chicagoan recognizes that what seems like a high-salary to some is very much not to others and suggests instead of focusing on the income, we should focus on the wealth. This is not the first time such a proposition was suggested (as we noted 14 months ago that 'muddle-through' was over and "we are confident, that one way or another, sooner or later, it will be implemented. Namely a one-time wealth tax: in other words, instead of stealth inflation, the government will be forced to proceed with over transfer of wealth") Strawman or not, the fact that Santelli is discussing it (and demurs on whether he has been contacted) means it is on the table...
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This whole mess is following the script written out in "dying of money" O'Parrson to the letter. Hyperinflation is as much a social phenomena as it is a monetary phenomena. We're reaching end-stage. We've probably only got a few more years left (max) in this monetary regime.
Of course its all bullshit. If you agree with Flameister then you are agreeing to the establishment of 'panels' or groups of people that will determine if you have been useful to society or not, and if not, punish you. No thanks.
If you have time Doc, take a look at Red Pill's post. Brilliant!
Hey Sloane..I did read the red pills post and that's always the way that I've felt. I am opposed to taxes but if we have to have them then a consumption tax is the way we should go. It's nice and clean. I don't for a minute really believe in a wealth tax, but it just rubs me the wrong way when they support this guy knowing we are going to take the brunt of it all and not them. Like you and Fonz I've become very jaded myself...it's one of those days.
Agree with you 100%. Of course we're going to take the brunt of it. Welfare, both private and corporate are growing, not shrinking. Disability rolls are so high now that the US is the most disabled society out of all Western established economies. We're going to pay for that. We're going to pay for lost skillsets, we're going to pay for part time workers who were once full time with benefits, we're going to pay for producing graduates at very high cost to themselves with nothing to do, we're going to pay for the American consumer who leveraged cheap labor abroad for decades, and we're going to pay for the elderly who cannot save for their future because savers are punished. All of those things come with a high cost. We're going to foot the bill.
That's probably not helping with your sense of being jaded, and for that I apologize.
I wonder about that Sloane. My heart is in the right place (I hope) but I am already tired of this crap, and I am 35. One of my friends whose basement got wiped out (again) was already pissing me off. Two years ago Irene did about $1,500 damage to their basement. FEMA wrote them a check that covered that, and a bathroom remodel. They are hoping FEMA helps them with their upstairs bedroom this time. A few more of these storms and they have themselves a free Mcmansion. While they were discussing this I informed them who is actually footing the bill. Tey shrugged their shoulders. They don't care. Eventually the fault lines between families/friends/everyone will grow so wide I can only hope (I guess) that a fullblown breakdown reset comes, because it may be the only chance we have to start over.
I'm sorry to hear that. Our community pulled together and had all of the heavy lifting done before FEMA got here. We're all going to be more aware of our core values, if we don't already know them, and stick close to those who share them. That's all any of us can do. I fully believe we're going to start over, but we have a lot of pain to wade through before that happens. Having people around who share your values and you love is going to be of primary importance. I have hope!
In fantasy land, a consumption tax is nice and clean. In reality it is quite hard to collect income from services provided via a consumption tax and verify reporting because people always underreport (and quite singificantly). As for as goods, even at a low threshold you get some level of black market activity if I guarantee you that if put a consumption tax on essential items (food, medicine, clothing) that was say 10-15% you would see a huge rise of organized crime associated with it.
Every tax system has its plus and minuses. No such thing as a clear winner/loser.
"Obama will cut off the mortgage tax deduction for anyone making over a million dollars."
I believe Clinton phased out all deductions for anyone making over a million dollars.
Try again.
Been seduced by one of the sweet songs of seduction of superbia, avaritia, luxuria, invidia, gula, ira, et acedia, have we?
Of course das überlegen support Obama, as das überlegen's über-wealth resides überlengen the designs of Obama's confiscation.
This is the basis of class warfare, it is das überlegen pitting one class of inferiors against another class inferiors to further their own ends (the acquisition and accumulation of additional wealth and power).
Forward Bitchez!
Dems are the party of the very rich -- people like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, George Soros, Kerry, Pelosi, Diane Feinstein, the Kennedys, etc. -- the people who already have theirs and don't want anybody else getting rich. So there is no way there will be a wealth tax. (Santelli knows that. He is just tweaking the Dems.)
Income taxes won't work; you've got to define the income levels considered "rich" very low. And then people just cut down on working since it doesn't pay.
We will follow our socialist leaders like France and implement a VAT. Let's make everything cost 20% more than it does now. That will please the Dem voter base now won't it?
Quoting the Sage of Baltimore: "nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people" and "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard". Amen.
You are a bitter partisan fool. Why not spew about, I don't know.....the Koch boys maybe? Moron.
LOL...kettle, pot, black much? Throwing in the Koch bros reference for extra partisan sauce too. Partisan fool indeed.
I am merely attempting to point out that the partisan nonsense needs to stop jackass. I am registered as independent. Both parties suck furiously, as apparently do you. I voted for Ron Paul in protest. If we can't get past the partisan BS then the USA is surely absolutely done. Finished. Kaput. Is the total dysfunction of our political system that hard for you to discern? I pity you......almost.
Looks like you know a lot about being a bitter partisan fool.
Not a partisan here, I wrote in Ron Paul in the most corrupt state in the union, Illinois. (No doubt the Diebold machine notified the proper government departments and put my name on some sort of watch list.)
But it sure seems to me team blue never wants to admit the mega rich folks who are also flying the blue team flag. Hell, Jon Corzine had a fundraiser for Obama attended by Dimon and most likely Blankfein. And people still think team blue is for the underdog. Bitter partisan - no. Don't let my emotions blind me to how both sides cater to the Wallstreet mafia -yes.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/42780381/
At last there is hope! +1
+ 100 if I could.
[for Blankenstein]
Confiscate wealth.
There is no point in taxing wealth. You didn't build that anyway. It's what all good socialist prefer.
This talk is all a smoke screen. The fascists will never relinquish their wealth. They will continue to suck on the teat of the middle class until the milk has gone dry, then slam their fascists boots down on our necks. That is the real plan.
The wealthy would leave, there would be reduced incentive to accumulate wealth in this country (and I am a serial entrepreneur), it would destroy the country. It is also pure confiscation that puts us on a slippery slope. As an entrepreneur, my next company would be in another country...why reach for the golden ring just to have it taken from you? The hard work, long hours, personal investment, personal sacrifice simply would not be worth it.
What coutnry are you going to move to that is stable, safe, and secure that has lower tax rates and is relatively easy to obtain a visa and ultimately citizenship?
There are many countries which are currently competing to INSOURCE entrepenurialism, whereas the US & France are competing to OUTSOURCE entrepenurialism, since apparently they didn't learn anything from the manufacturing outsourcing boom.
BTW Switzerland worked just fine for me.
Lets be a little obvious: If I have "wealth" I've already paid taxes on it, every penny I've saved and accumulated has received the government bite.
your comment seems to imply that government has a satiable appetite for your wealth. It doesn't.
Yes, Unlce Warren has honestly paid his taxes and deserves every penny of his hard earned...belch...I mean, crony-capitalist assisted empire.
Occasionally, you didn't build that actually rings true.
If I have "wealth" I've already paid taxes on it, every penny I've saved and accumulated has received the government bite.
Just because YOU'RE a sucker who pays your share of taxes doesn't mean that RICH GUY is also.
This is the problem when you run such a corrupt system for so long. There's no longer a distinction between wealth from honest means and wealth from corrupt means.
We're already past the point of no return. Taxing wealth is just the logical next time. Later comes total confiscation. Have a nice day.
Republicans are in disbelief, but it's gona pass.
Obama/Far Left PROMISED good life for everybody, not different from Pierre Trudeau here in Canada. He ruled for a decade by promising and promising free stuff, until Canada was ruined.
It came to a point that there was a proposal to evict Canada from G7 but USA insisted for it to remain in order not to feel lonely from North America.
Later Brian Mulroney and Jean Chretien were forced to undo all that Trudeau ruined. Trudeau was always inspired by Fidel Castro.
There are still millions of people in welfare who still dream of Trudeau.
Obama is like Trudeau. He has promised good life with little work. Canada is 30 mil and has crude oil but USA is 300 mil, ten times bigger. Misery will come faster than you think, way faster.
Then, people will talk to each in disbelief and say to themselves: What did we do? Were we so stupid?
Start raiding the bank accounts of Bill Maher, Bill Gates, Soros, Pelosi, the banksters... then we can talk.
Wealth bashing is contagious, I kinda dig it
Yeah, it's so nice to see how much the Reds and Blues have in common when it really comes down to it.
It's not really that a guy like lolmao500 wants small government or low taxes, he just doesn't want it done to HIS GUYS.
Winston Smith had his breaking point, too.
"Do it to Julia! Do it to HER!"
the problem with "one-time" taxes is that they never are.
So, if Grover Norquist owns The Great Santelli it is safe to assume that Jerk Welch owns both men.
I cannot believe Santelli would suggest such a thing. Amazing.
just plain wrong.
Bullish on $500 p/h accountants.
Glad he said it, because wealth tax will be floated again, soon. It is a little less painful coming from Rick and laced with sarcasm.
Wealth tax for those who voted fro Romney. Barry's supporters not so much.
Tax Hank Paulson 99% of his net worth. Tax Corzine 100%. Tax Pandit... Until then let it all die.
Hey, we already have a tax on wealth (i.e. accumulated savings from past production). Its called inflation. Its made possible by a debt backed money, fractional reserve lending, and the FEDs inflation "targets". I'm surprised Santelli doesn't understand how that ponzi works (the first to get access to the new $ benefit, everyone else is screwed)-I assume he's just having fun playing devil's advocate.
I'm sure he understand that the problem with socialism is always that you run out of other people's money. So, instead of addressing this and getting rid of entitlements and the mentality they encourage lets punish the productive savers, reward the profligate debtors and you'll get less saving and more debt. That should work quite well for destroying wealth-no new taxes needed. People with talent and ability will leave the country in droves-its already happening in California to the benefit of states like Texas and its happening in France too. I've got news for the parasites who elected Obama-we don't need you or the government.
It is not enough that they just create money out of thin air. We all have to have less of it to maintain the illusion of scarcity as well.
This is stupid. Stop feeding the banks free money as a business model, and stop them from trading, make them act as bankers who give loans. There is no amount of tax or theft that is going to fix anything.
Also, when the Fed buys our debt, we don't pay interest on it. So that is just straight up printing. We don't need higher taxes to pay that back because we will never have to pay it back or pay interest on it. What we need is a functional banking system if we want a functioning economy.
There already is a wealth tax. Its called transfer taxes: the estate tax, the gift tax, and the generation skipping transfer tax. And frankly Capital gains are a form of wealth tax. Then Propoperty taxes are very much a wealth tax already at least on real property.
Does this mean they'll decrease the exemption amounts and leave ordinary income taxes alone?
BTW if we ever got out of this ZIRP environment the economy would be doing better as more would trickle down. Met with a client this week who is liquid to a few million and also a couple million in real estate and yet at 65 while taking advantage of Medi-care and Social Security and a paltry income from her investments and savings who feels very poor and fears spending it all down before she dies. She was literally contemplating investing $240,000 with some shaddy ATM sale and leaseback investment scheme which "promised" her a 20% return each year.
If they want to tax wealth they should tax wealth that is stashed away in tax havens which according to one report is close to $30 trillion dollars.
If someone has to mark assets to market (and they would want the truth for this fiasco) the whole thing goes up in flames.
Middle Class Escapism
The US middle class pays itself in tomorrow's money to produce escapism, virtual expansion in a rapidly contracting Newtonian box, within which there are many boxes within boxes, a failed extrapolation of the failed Japanese economy of minaturization, which is why its participants cannot love. They cannot see beyond the box they have chosen, let alone make the leap of faith required to place the future needs of others ahead of their own addictions today. Their idea of parenting is denial at best, and government directive at worst.
And now that their children and grandchildren have zero real work skills to support further expansionary escapism, and they see the future as a part-time WalMart security guard, pleading to the next generation of teenage female gatekeepers for welfare extensions, in lieu of social security, medicare, and civil service pensions, they point their fingers in all directions, except their own. Nothing prevents them from taking over the government; they are the government. And they just re-elected the same regime, ensuring more of the same.
The eye is a lamp, for good and evil...beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Just yesterday, the church put malcontents on the rack, and much worse, for teaching that the earth was not flat, and the Irish hid books in caves. If you tell present administrators that we have moved well beyond Newton, they'll take your children and declare you a non-person, in a world controlled by digital credit, to its own end. Nevetheless, Germany and the defense contractors are collapsing of their own dead weight, again. Who'd a thunk?
How many times have we seen gold trotted out for the occassion of excessive asset and associated currency inflation, in our lifetimes alone? Every empire is the latest and greatest suit of bells, whistles and sparklies, and every empire gets replaced, while every middle class feigns shock and horror when its tyranny of the manufactured majority is disrobed for all to see. Jesus didn't die on the cross to save the middle class; the middle class voted to crucify him, just as the current middle class seeks to crucify another, to save its own hide.
This time around, the final bait and switch, normally capital to labor, is going to turn out a wee bit different. The trick, as always, is to let them "think" they have crucified you, and leave the rest to nature. How could anyone possibly survive beyond the authority of the all-powerful OZ?
The US middle class is a sunk cost, pulling the entire empire down with it. That's critters. They can no longer hide behind Jesus and the cave is running out of oxygen, because hypocrits cannot think for themselves. Step out of the way and the empire implodes. Basically, you add dead weight to your backpack as you climb the first half of the mountain, and drop it as you go up the second half. Start training your children right out of the gate.
Why would anyone accept the empire's definition of labor, trading a non-recurring carrot for a recurring sledge hammer to the head, like sex for syphillus? Live by the sword, die by the sword.
"Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged." TAE
Watch what happens when the next 20% of the middle class gets gutted by the remaining 40%.
Hasn't pretty much everything since WWII (and maybe since Edward Bernays) simply been wealth confiscation from the future? Built-in obsolescence was never going to pay for itself.
edit: Looks like the future is now.
No shit....
Since nobody has a job these days, they will have to steal from someplace else. Makes sense to me.
Once The Layoffs Begin They Will Hit Like An Avalanche http://chartistfriendfrompittsburgh.blogspot.com/2012/10/once-layoffs-be... http://www.theblaze.com/stories/how-many-businesses-have-announced-closi...
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http://rollingjubilee.org/ https://secure.gigmaven.com/events/8879/orders/newJohn Boehner House Leader, only choise is to raise the debt limit, let the fiscal cliff happen and raise the taxes on rich and along with healthcare it all collapses.
Come out and stress this is a terrible mistake, but you want it you got it.
Any other compromise will let the dems once again claim the rep are to blame.
Neither party is willing to go out on a limb so I predict dems won't vote for his plan either.
Compromise = your fault it didn't work
Does the Fed pay taxes? It is a private bank, right?
the private banks behind the Fed do not pay taxes on interest income earned from conjured money, as I understand it.
You don't really think the Rothchilds pay tax, now do you?
It doesn't, no, it's kinda like a non-profit. It pays its "surplus revenues" to the Treasury.
bull- they'll never show a profit, but that won't keep them from owning all our homes, farms, businesses, etc. at a loss (conveniently covered by a computer entry) when they crash our economy. Theyre not buying half a trillion a year of mortgage backed securities because they fear they will have to pay profits to the treasury. And even if they do ever pay the government profits -they own the fucking government. It won't help us a lick.
Silly. Banks don't WANT your shitty homes, farms, and businesses. That's *not* why the Fed is doing what it's doing.
They're trying to protect their current membership. If things go too wrong too fast, they know full-well government has the "legal authority" to strip them of power.
This is a simple enough conflict, but not many folks have snapped to it. It's bankers against the world, and they're NERVOUS. They are not in a strong position right now. Most of the industrialized world would jump at the chance to elect an FDR at the moment. (Don't bother shrieking about how horrible that'd be--I'm not offering a value judgment, it's just an OBSERVATION.) The Hollande election is an important datapoint.
If such a thing happened, it would be a disaster for the handful of folks who currently own the planet. The Fed will side with the Nazis or La Raza or Iran way before it'll start allowing nominal valuations to fall, and the only way to protect nominal valuations is by killing the dollar. The proportionate distribution of "money" is what's cruicial to maintain.
If the folks who own the banks wanted your puny assets, they'd already have bought them, and you'd have been thrilled to death at the opportunity to cash their check.
Tax the wealthy is doable.
It's called defaulting on bonds.
Evidently our man Rick has been spending rather than saving his trading profits, therefore has zero or negative net worth. For those of us who have saved a couple mill he can up and and kiss my ass. Ain't nobody confiscating yours truly's wealth.
Then, kind sir, you would be wise to observe OPSEC.
If you only have a couple of million, you have nothing to worry about. I'd take a big chunk of Robert Rubin, Bud Paulsen, Lloyd Blankfein, John Corzine, George Bush, Dick Cheney,Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner, Bill and Hillary Clintons money in a heartbeat. If that makes me a Communist -so be it.
This, of course, is exactly what Keynes suggested, lo those many years ago. It's a pity so few here actually read the guy. He was very much in favour of the entrepeneur class - you know, the people who actually do something, create jobs, etc., - and not at all in favour of what he deemed the 'rentier' class - those who lent out money, and as we old-timers used to say, 'clipped the coupons'. His solution to gov't revenue problems was a tax on wealth, or a 'capital levy', as he called it. But he was not going to count your stock market holdings, or if a sole proprietor, the value of your machinery or plants; he was interested in taxing the money holdings - bonds, cash, bank accounts. The idea was two-fold - to get money for the government to pay for expenditures, but also to encourage 'dead capital' to get out and moving again.
And since Keynes was, to put it mildly, a snob, he would be horrified by an America where 47% of the populace were on the dole in one way or another, and clamoured for even more of the rich's wealth. Dismissing Marxism, he wrote
"How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeoisie and the intelligentsia, who with all their faults, are the quality of life and surely carry the seeds of all human achievement? "
Santelli is right. If they taxed the value of Stock holdings then there could be lots of income raised. Even on the State level they tax a Companys Personal Property.
After all they Tax Real Estate every year, which is in effect an asset Tax for revenues to run State Governments. In Baltimore City the yearly tax rate is 2.38%.
I would love to see Buffet live long enough to see his reaction to taxing all of his Stock holdings every year. Even at 2% a year. Bet my bottom dollar he would not be for THAT Tax. He is only for Taxing every one because his actual income is low. All of his money is in Stock assets which are not Taxed.
So you can keep working and we won't raise taxes on your current income.
But on your old income you did not spend on crap, we are going to tax.
Fuck that!
That equates to an anti-consumption tax.
Consume or be taxed? Is that the new strategy?
are we still talking about this ???
Isn't that what Santelli calls the "death tax"? Was he against it before he was for it?
I think I've seen this movie.
It's called "Doctor Zhivago."
The funniest part is where they say: "a one-time wealth tax."
One time? Bwahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me, er, uh, fool me twice, uh, Won't get fooled again!
First, a constitutional amendment that whatever government impositions occur outside the beltway must be doubled inside the beltway. After that let them do whatever floats their boats.
Fuck Republicans for putting their idiotic pledge to Grover fucking Nordquist over the good of the country. God for bid they ever do anything responsible.
You need to do the math. There is no way out of this problem via raising taxes. The spending is so big, that it completely dwarfs all revenue sources such that tax increases cannot plug the gap.
You need to do the math. There is no way out of this problem via raising taxes. The spending is so big, that it completely dwarfs all revenue sources such that tax increases cannot plug the gap.
IF they took 100% it still would not make a dent.
Grasping at straws, likely HE will do both.............increases, and stea, er' deduct.
How about simply taxing, even 10% on billionaires s inheritance taxes, or closing the loopholes that let them pay no taxes?
Wikipedia claims a staggering 83% of federal tax revenue comes from income taxes and SS/medicare withholding, paycheck scalping if you will, and those huge mountain sized piles of income scalps isn't nearly enough anymore. More paycheck scalping will hurt the vast majority of the public, will likely trigger widespread anger and produce negative social and economic outcomes. Cutting spending seems like a sensible approach, but all the really expensive outlays are untouchable. So how can the federal government get more money? Right now they're essentially printing it, OK for now, like a gigatron impact asteroid a few years away is OK for now. FYI, It's not OK.
So, income scalping is out, spending cuts are out, endless printing is out, what is left? What about obscenely hoarded and essentially unproductive wealth? Barely taxed corporations are sitting on lots of OHEUW Mitt is hiding OHEUW offshore. What is the likely outcome of a modest tax on OHEUW? Will it fence the fiscal cliff? Will it Atlas Shruggle those few of the OHEUW?
Since it looks like the OHEUW are calling all the shots and pulling all the strings, we'll probably have a severe Brazilian income wax legislated upon us.
All they have to do to make this acceptable is to figure out how much wealth is exempt. A wealth tax should be aimed at the elites, not the merely well off. Add in a financial transaction tax, and maybe we can reverse the inequality a bit.
I don't know too many people who are unhappy with Obama's idea of extending the Bush tax cuts for incomes under $250,000 either. Guess I'm too middle class to understand why letting them expire for higher incomes is a problem. Maybe Boehner can explain that to me.
"The president wants to let George W. Bush-era tax cuts lapse on income of individuals above $200,000 and of married couples above $250,000. That would push the top tax rate to 39.6 percent from 35 percent."
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-11-09/obama-said-to-urge-congress-...
How can a tax of any kind be the answer? The more $ govt gets the more they spend. The problem is spending - not income.
The problem is crony capitalism, where every good piece of legislation (SNAP for poor) is tied to a crony handout (subsidies for Big Ag).
"Combining food-stamp and crop subsidies in Farm Bills creates a logical disconnect. Farm subsidies make all consumers, including food-stamp recipients, pay more for groceries. Yet a majority in Congress fails to see the irony in paying row-crop subsidies that reduce the purchasing power of food stamps as they help drive up the costs of the food-stamp program."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/the_farm_policy_end-run.html
NO NO NO NO A THOUSAND TIMES NO!!!!! Because with big brother it is never just one time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sounds like elite propaganda. The libertarian utopia is a fine hiding place for vast stores of wealth.
The "wealth tax" would only hit people with estates over $4 million. LOL. What shit. Those people have no idea how to hide their wealth, right? And the threshold would never be lowered, right?
Here's your wealth tax: a sales, VAT or carbon tax. So basically anyone who paid taxes on their income and saved can pay more on their savings when they spend them.
Fuck that.
More money fed to the machine simply means more money to be consumed by the machine. Cut spending. If the people @ ZH don't get this, then America is 100% dead.
And your solution leaves us looking like a third world country. So much better than "dead", whatever that means (sounds good, though).
If we cut military spending deeply, I doubt if that would make the USA more of a 3rd world country. But look around. Vast stretches of America are 3rd world, and a lot of it always has been.
Up until even 1960, yeah it was including huge areas with no indoor plumbing, water, or electricity.
Rick Santelli just created a new plank for the COMMUNIST party...
ugggggh
That would hobble U.S. Citizens...the rest of the worlds people would have such an advantage over us...
Evil idea.
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE WEALTH YOU GOVERNMENT PRICKS!!!!!
I thought Rick was the good cop?
Beyond Left and Right
http://www.henrygeorge.org/isms.htm
https://libertyrevival.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/ending-poverty-and-political-turmoil/
The Corruption of Economics says it best...
http://www.amazon.com/Corruption-Economics-Georgist-Paradigm/dp/08568316...
After the Crash - Designing a Depression Free Economy
http://masongaffney.org/
http://www.amazon.com/After-Crash-Designing-Depression-free-Economic/dp/1444333070/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1352510159&sr=8-1&keywords=after+the+crash+gaffney
Working papers and essays on this very topic!
http://masongaffney.org/workpapers.html
http://masongaffney.org/essays.html
Enjoy
If I understand correctly, the elite don't own the vast majority of their wealth; they control it. Look at Gates, Buffet, Rockefellers, etc. They donated much of their wealth to non profits that they control.
Seems this control vs. own would get around this tax in a heartbeat.
Because wealth is a lot easier to hide than income.
"what seems like a high-salary to some is very much not to others"
Because it's a bitch to make ends meet on only $250k a year...
taxing capital (especially non productive one) instead of taxing labour IS EXACTLY WHAT IS NEEDED to redistribute wealth in a more fair way
But of cause the government will abuse it as it always does.
taxing wealth is COMMUNIST...
it is akin to their platform of NO INHERITENCE
Whover voted down my comment man up to it ...commie
taxing wealth is COMMUNIST...
it is akin to their platform of NO INHERITENCE
Whover voted down my comment man up to it ...commie