Quote Originally Posted by Baphomet3 View Post
I used the wrong percentage.

What I mean to say was that the proposed tax hikes that everyone is frothing at the mouth over are only worth a measley $70 billion -- a figure that will literally evaporate like the steam from a cup of water tossed onto a roaring bonfire in the vast churning chasm of government consumption and waste.

If you carry this logic out and completely confiscate ALL of their wealth, you can now run the government for a whopping 6 months on a figure closer to what you provided. The orders of magnitude, while accurate, are moot.

Demonizing successful people is wildly unethical and counter-productive. We need more, not less of them. And even if they were all greedy bastards and drawing and quartering them wouldn't wreck whole industries and chill innovation and risk to depression era levels, it would amount to a grand total of jack fucking squat. We spend, somehow, $7 trill a year and we've managed to run up $20 trill in debt. These numbers are approaching cosmic-levels that are flat-out difficult to conceptualize.

You think hosing a few super-successful business owners for 50% of their take-home pay is going to do anything but create animosity and division? You think it will solve ANYTHING?

Unless, of course, by "solve" you mean scapegoat, divide and conquer, rabble rouse, demonize, Hugo Chaves class-warfare populaist manipulation that keeps you in power for a decade.

Then yes, problem fucking SOLVED. I win; you lose: suck it, America.
Although I agree with your general point, I'm scratching my head a bit at your numbers. Where did you get 20 trillion dollars in debt from? I know that the real debt of the nation counting all of its liabilities is several times the national debt and if you add consumer debt, we fall off the charts but I am not sure where you are pulling these numbers from like spending 7 trillion a year for example. Do you mind clarifying please?