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. ;-)