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MoonDog · 10-12-2008, 07:45 PM

I read this while drinking Oktoberfest microbrew (yay Ellicottville Brew Pub!).

I myself have never understood the need to attack that segment of the population that is paying the most in taxes. My question is, if taxes on the rich are instituted, who gets to determine what "rich" is? Also, what is a legitimate use for the proceeds of such a tax? Education, welfare, universal healthcare?

I can almost buy into an effort to limit the salaries and other soft payments received by top level corporate executives, but in my mind it has to be based on a need to protect shareholders from over-generous contracts in times of economic trouble.

Oh, and the guys who weren't paying anything for their beers wouldn't have gone outside to discuss that they hadn't received anything because, if they were like me, free beer = unconcious MoonDog :-)

10-12-2008, 07:45 PM	#24 (permalink)
MoonDog Psycho Location: Buffalo, New York	I read this while drinking Oktoberfest microbrew (yay Ellicottville Brew Pub!). I myself have never understood the need to attack that segment of the population that is paying the most in taxes. My question is, if taxes on the rich are instituted, who gets to determine what "rich" is? Also, what is a legitimate use for the proceeds of such a tax? Education, welfare, universal healthcare? I can almost buy into an effort to limit the salaries and other soft payments received by top level corporate executives, but in my mind it has to be based on a need to protect shareholders from over-generous contracts in times of economic trouble. Oh, and the guys who weren't paying anything for their beers wouldn't have gone outside to discuss that they hadn't received anything because, if they were like me, free beer = unconcious MoonDog :-)