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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
Let's just pretend you came up with some great idea or great invention and you decided to sell it for $100 million. Do you think it would be fair for the government to take 90-95% of that money? If you lived in an expensive area, you could hardly even retire. If they took 95%, that would leave you with $5 million. If you are really conservative and wanted to just keep the money in the bank, you would only get around $250,000 a year. After taxes, you would only be left with around $130,000 a year. If you bought a $2 million house, your mortgage payment alone would be $120,000 a year.
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OK, I've listened to enough ranting...let me repeat myself...NOBODY NEEDS ALL THAT MONEY! It amuses me that the same old greed-filled arguments are pulled out to defend folks right to be rich! Let me get my hankie so I can cry over the fate of someone forced to live on a measly few million dollars...wawawa! Explain to me why you NEED a two million dollar house, or a private jet?? Explain all these NEEDS to folks living on the streets and eating out of garbage cans...oh yeah, that's right...they're just lazy and deserve to suffer..right?? Just like those kids who starve to death in the Third World or die from diseases for which we have had cures for years! Yes, I guess you are right...my way of thinking is UnAmerican...afterall, like the lady in the song, you can buy the stairway to heaven! What right do I have to tell someone that they have enough money? What right does anyone have who sees injustice to speak?? I'm the bad guy? All I want is to end poverty and human suffering...excuse me if some folks have to slum it in a cheaper home or fly on a commercial airliner, or join one less country club! What arrogance!! You guys actually believe that some folks DESERVE unlimited wealth and power while others DESERVE pain and suffering?? Please, tell these people how they must suffer so that you can buy another Rolls! Oh, and the only thing wrong with communism is communists...human nature unfortunately trumps the best intentions.