wrote:
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:12:21 -0500, Boater wrote:


You can be sure no one in the Bush Administration gives a damn about
worker bees. Oh...and I just read somewhere that several of the
financial institutions, banks mostly, getting taxpayer bailout money
have reserved some of it for future bonuses for executives.

Yeah, like 10% of *our* money.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...laries-banking



We're not there yet, and we may not get there in my lifetime, but what
we need in this country is a total restructuring of society that adds
fairness. I'm not talking communism, but I wouldn't mind a bit more
European socialism. More and more this country seems to exist only to
help the wealthy attain more wealth. If that is the direction it is
heading, then it deserves to fail.

If it does fail, and I hope it doesn't, it's time to redefine
capitalism. There is no way a few greedy, incompetent *******s should be
able to take down the world's economy.


Going back to the confiscatory tax rates of the 1950s might help. You
know...something like a tax rate of 90% on *all* income over $500,000.
I'd like to see corporations invest in technology, job training, product
improvement and worker benefits, instead of in overpaying mediocre
management. I wouldn't mind seeing us do away with a number of the
purely speculative stock and money instruments, too.

Boater wrote:
wrote:
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:12:21 -0500, Boater wrote:


You can be sure no one in the Bush Administration gives a damn about
worker bees. Oh...and I just read somewhere that several of the
financial institutions, banks mostly, getting taxpayer bailout money
have reserved some of it for future bonuses for executives.

Yeah, like 10% of *our* money.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...laries-banking


We're not there yet, and we may not get there in my lifetime, but what
we need in this country is a total restructuring of society that adds
fairness. I'm not talking communism, but I wouldn't mind a bit more
European socialism. More and more this country seems to exist only to
help the wealthy attain more wealth. If that is the direction it is
heading, then it deserves to fail.

If it does fail, and I hope it doesn't, it's time to redefine
capitalism. There is no way a few greedy, incompetent *******s should
be able to take down the world's economy.


Going back to the confiscatory tax rates of the 1950s might help. You
know...something like a tax rate of 90% on *all* income over $500,000.
I'd like to see corporations invest in technology, job training, product
improvement and worker benefits, instead of in overpaying mediocre
management. I wouldn't mind seeing us do away with a number of the
purely speculative stock and money instruments, too.

There are too many tax loopholes. Close them all. How much money could
the IRS pull in from people avoiding the marriage tax by filing
separately or worse claiming individual status when married.