Somebody, prideandfall I think, was talking about controlling wealth and suggested that no one should be able to have a net worth that exceeds three million. Anything after three mil should be taxed 100%. Am I wrong? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Anyway, I am a poor person. I've never earned more than 36k a year.
I am currently homeless, and living in a motel. I have to get a second job to make ends meet. I am flying by the seat of my pants! And actually liking it, as I am nuttier than a jar of Jif and suicidal.
But. And there is always a (_!_)...
I think this idea is completely insane. Talk about deincentivising the excelsiors among us!
My cousin's home is worth more than three mil! Should I expect him to work for free?
What do we do with athletes, actors, musicians, who are worth in the hundreds of millions?
Egads, talk about insane.
How is it fair for him to pay so much more in taxes than you? Wouldn't it be fairer to pay a flat tax?
So if you pay 10% of your 36k and he pays 10% of his $3 million then you're both pulling your weight equally, right? Fair is fair?
You seem to, and please remember I am saying SEEM to, as I cannot gain control of your mind and know what you are thinking...
You seem to be saying that things should be fair. We already know that nature is not fair. It gives the lion advantages over the gazelle, it gives predators advantages over their prey...it sucks but that's the way it is.
You seem (SEEM) to want a level playing field for humans, when in reality, nature doesn't traffic in level playing fields, doesn't care about fairness, and gives clear advantages to some and denies those advantages to others.
I find it astonishing sometimes that the far left will excuse in nature what they abhor in human interactions. Especially atheists, who absolutely love nature, and adore their cats (nature's perfect killers, cold and dispassionate), but condemn and despise those same traits and behaviors in humans.
Humans are competitive. Alas, what a surprise! I admit that I myself am NOT competitive, that I am not, by nature, a fighter, or a survivor. I have survived by the good graces of human society. But my good fortune does not cause me to turn a blind eye on nature.
Equal opportunity does not guarantee equal outcomes. There are those who will succeed, and those who will fail. Nature will not be changed or overcome.
This has nothing to do with gender or race. I am an individualist. I believe in judging people as individuals, not as groups. I am dead set against judging individuals according to immutable characteristics, things they had absolutely no control over. I think we should judge people according to what values they hold and what they DO, not on the unalterable facts of their origin.