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On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:03:32 -0400, Drifter wrote:

On 10/17/2011 6:30 AM, X ` Man wrote:
In 1358, according to historian and author Barbara Tuchman, a peasant
revolution started in the Oise valley of France. The peasants attacked
and looted a manor house, killed the knight who lived there and roasted
him on a spit while his wife and children watched. A dozen of the serfs
raped the lady of the manor while the children watched, and then they
forced her to eat the cooked flesh of her husband. Then they killed her.

Now that is serious class warfare.

Discussing whether the top one percent of the wealthy in this country
should pay a higher tax rate is not, though I think the "French"
treatment of a few dozen Wall Street chiefs and industrial chiefs would
provide quicker results.

Lets hope a similar fate doesn't come to your doorstep.

Harry is well armed and prepared to shoot any serf who comes to get
his stuff because he has more than they do, ;-)

I know it sounds attractive to go loot the rich but the reality is,
they are not that rich.

If you took every dime from the top 10 richest people in the US, it
would run Medicare for about 145 days, then what?

There would be no more Microsoft, Oracle, Walmart, Georgia Pacific,
the Sands chain of casinos and whatever Soros and Buffett do.

You would have thrown a quarter of a million people out of work for
what? Five months of medical care for geezers?

Just like in society in general, the wealth starts dropping off pretty
fast on the top 400 too. By the time you get down to #31-32 you are in
single billion dollar digits. Bear in mind, most of this money is
unrealized capital gains that would disappear as soon as you tried to
cash the check anyway.
If you suddenly tried to sell 600 million shares of Microsoft, what do
you think you would get for it?
It certainly wouldn't be the $17 billion Forbes says it is worth to
Bill Gates.

The flaw in the above is that I know of no one who thinks we should take
all of the money from all of the corps. It would be a good thing if they
started paying there fair share though.