I think that the people complaining about the distribution of wealth in America really need to go walk the streets of a poverty stricken area, and decide what "poverty" actually is.
Where I live, I can walk into the poorest area of town - where the vast majority of people are below the poverty line. 98% have TVs. 95% have cars.
What do we define poverty as? An arbitrary line of saying "oh, your too poor! You need more tax breaks!" or "your too rich! We need to take more of your money away!"
The fact is that the logic of "1% of Americans hold 64% of the wealth" is retarded....Why? That 99% lives better than most anyone else in the world. A pauper in the USA is better than a middle class citizen in China, or a higher class citizen in Nigeria.
And like Mesoteo said - We need a flat tax, stat..And preferably done at the point of sale. Everyone can avoid taxes, or just decide not to file. We need mandatory taxation at the point of sale so CEO's can't wiggle their way out of it, nor can the poor man. That way if the CEO is spending 100 times as much as the poor person, they get taxed 100 times as much.
I think it's fair that way - Spend more, get taxed more. Spend less, get taxed less.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
