…to have a president wise enough to know how much money we should all have.
For all these wealth gluttons, I have a suggestion: stop earning any more money for the next two years. Since most of you voted for him anyway, grant the president his wish. Stop.
Withdraw all your money from all investments. Shutter your stores, restaurants, factories, movie studios, banks and financial brokerages. Evict all tenants from your apartment buildings and shopping centers, and board the buildings up. Invent nothing, bring no products to market, write no books and hire no one. Stop adding to your unjust, unfair, beyond-the-point income or wealth. Take a vacation. File next year’s federal, state and local tax returns with big, fat zeroes written on the payment-due lines.
While you’re at it, buy as little as possible too. After all, at other times, the president has indicated he thinks many of us keep our homes too warm or too cool, drive around too much (on under-inflated tires), eat too much salty food, buy ‘Cadillac’ health plans that are too good. He has a point of too much in mind about everything. He is the Decider of your too-much. Everybody at the too-much point could relieve him of a lot of worry by spending nearly nothing for the next two years.
I wonder if he thinks he has enough, or too much?
The implication is that you’ve produced “enough” wealth for other people. I don’t know how that’s even possible — there are a lot of people in this world.
At some point, “Il Dufe,” I think you’ve got enough power.
I hate that congress no longer has to vote themselves raises (in the middle of the night when few are looking.) For many years now, it’s just automatic. Their pay aught to be tied to the median income. The more wealth in American’s hands, the more they earn. No more automatic pay raises.
Ken, just pay them to not work. Every day they work, dock their pay. It’s win-win.
This is what happens when you elect a President whose entire existence has been derived almost entirely on the largesse of others. Having no experience with, and therefore no appreciation of, earning a living and getting the deep personal satisfaction that comes from seeing the fruits of your own labor, virtually anything he has to say about capitalism and free enterprise is profoundly ignorant.
Ken, I would go much further…reduce their pay to around 40K annually and eliminate all benefits and pensions. In fact, I would turn the capital building into a big museum and send all House members and Senators home to legislate from their home districts. No longer would they be able to complain of having to maintain two residences, and it would go a long way towards eliminating the “culture” of Washington. It would be pretty easy today for them to securely teleconference and cast their votes electronically.
At some point, the government has taken enough of my money. Unfortunately, every year that point arrives earlier and earlier — the vaunted “Bush tax cuts” only slowed the march toward January.
The assumption in economics is that no one has enough money. If not, there’s no incentive to do anything unpleasant. I recommend reading Aristophanes Wealth.
Sam, under perfect communism(tm) who will shovel the sh*t?