Doc wrote:
So we can sign you up for a 110% tax on your gross income?
c'mon Doc, you are just being silly.
In Merika, the popularity of the idea that "The rich should pay their fair share!" no matter how great, will always be superseded by the popularity of "Yeah, but I'm not one of the rich!" Even if the speaker is worth tens of millions! Think Ted Kennedy or Warren Buffet.
In mathematical terms, all N%ers think rich starts at N-1%. "They" also think that the N+1%ers who want to tax the N%ers at high rates are all freeloading scumbags.
You can bad mouth it all day long, but hypocrisy, selfishness, and self-delusion create a well-balanced society.
Epiphany" get rid of "self" and hypocrisy, selfishness, and self-delusion all disappear. But "who" will voluntarily drink the hemlock first?
No one I know.