"HK" wrote in message
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thunder wrote:
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:22:08 -0500, HK wrote:


Hang anyone earning more than $500,000 a year in any endeavor that does
not prolong life or prevent serious illness. Limit those people to no
more than $1,000,000 a year. Confiscatory income tax rates. No deferred
income. Confiscatory tax rates on non-family-business inheritances. Over
time, you might breed out some of the greed characteristics.

Will it hurt society? You mean, more than greed has the last decade? :?)

I used to think mandatory sterilization for all politicians might be a
could idea. In a couple of generations, we might be able to remove that
defective gene from the pool. Maybe expanding the program to include
Wall Street might work. ;-)


Well, we need to at least start up a national dialogue on the evils of
greed and the need to have a different focus for determine success in
life.

Speaking of greed antidotes, I bought a coffee this morning after running
an errand, and as I was pocketing the change, I felt there was something
"odd" about the coins. Sure enough, my change from the two dollars I
handed in included a quarter and two one dollar coins. Damned dollar coins
are only a "rim" bigger than a quarter. So I swapped them back to the
cashier for two quarters, which is what she should have given me. Don't
blame her, though...lots of customers in line and no time to look too
closely. Tbhe dollar coins should have been minted much larger than
quarters.


All your mint people had to do was look at our Loonie...much bigger and a
different colour from our 25 cent piece.
http://www.mint.ca/store/coin/specim...009-prod530016