[tomphot]

Originally Posted by grizzfan

Well I watched Matt Monson's suggested video all the way through, my 75 year old attention span being quite good. All I can comment at this point, having watched it, is the curiosity of all the one-percenters harping on "income inequality" and how we must fix it. You know the names, the nouveau rich like the Clintons and the Obamas, the powerful like the Berkshire-Hathaway tycoon and former Microsoft chairman as well as the money manipulators like George Soros, et al, ad nauseum. All Democrats too. So, why don't they just give their money to the poor and leave the rest of us alone? By the way, they don't. So in their populist diatribe there must be something I'm missing. There must be something in it for them beyond the satisfaction of giving. You should recall that in socialist/communist utopias there are some that are more equal than others, to borrow a phrase, beyond the proletariat.

As for fines based upon income, surely we can do better than that! How about everything you purchase, (bread, Porsches, milk, mortgage) being based upon what you earn? That should level the playing field pretty quickly and provide more to benevolent governments and their programs.

I'm dismayed by the naiveté of the apparent socialists on this forum and the relative few who think for a living.

Tom

Well Said!