Originally Posted by smooth

You're out of control. Re-read the thread, as this issue has been addressed.

The short of it is that I realized a long time ago that people don't read these posts very carefully except when they want to deconstruct an argument. Then, they pay so close attention to each line, that they miss the real point the poster was trying to make.

I made it very clear that I was referring to people who own the vast majority of the capital. Bill Gates does not own a huge proportion of the capital relative to the people I was talking about. You got so riled up that you missed the part where I was specifically referring to that class. Since my entire argument is that we ought to pay attention to assets moreso than income, you should have concluded that I thought those two posters were placing themselves in the top asset holder category. The majority of the people in the class they are talking about pay a significant portion of the tax bill. It's the background money that isn't getting tapped--the capital that corporations and a tiny slice of our population control.

As to your splitting hairs over whether I should have stated, don't have to work rather than don't work, I think you're just picking at things to provide reasons to yourself to prove that your disagreement with my position is due to rational reasons rather than ideological ones.