by Ken Vincent, Featured Contributor
WELL, OBAMA continued his divide and conquer tactics last night by proposing more taxes on the “rich guys”. It isn’t enough that 10% of the tax payers pay 80% of the taxes? Now he proposes they should pay more. It has become a major sport to push the theory that business executives got to their lofty positions and high salaries by climbing on the backs of the poor and downtrodden.
So just who are these people that are unjustly making too much money? Well, that is hard to say because even our government can’t seem to get a handle on it. Various tax levels are reached at anywhere from under $200,000 to $400,000 depending on which law you look at and which agency you ask.
In any case, it seems to be popular to think that people having too much success in life should be penalized. So as we set about to take down those over paid and greedy business tycoons lets be consistent and take down the others too.
That ball player that just signed a $300,000,000 contract should certainly give up $250,000,000 of that and we will give it to the folks that take tickets, maintain the playing field, man the snack bars, provide security, and clean the stadium. After all why should this guy be paid so much just because people are willing to pay big ticket prices to see him play and TV networks are willing to sign huge contracts for the right to broadcast the games?
Then of course we should limit what that movie star makes on his/her next film. That surplus can go to the high school drop out that cleans the theaters.
Now we should also take some of that money away from the lady that sold all those books about some kid that became a wizard. Her success was clearly gained on the backs of the sales clerks making minimum wages in the book stores. Oh yes, she is British so I guess we can’t tap her, but there must be other authors and artists that make too much money.
Certainly the young guy working his way through college by putting hamburgers on buns should share in the profits of the owner of that franchise store. It doesn’t really matter that he isn’t on the hook at the bank for the $500,000 mortgage, or that he doesn’t work 12-15 hours a day 6 and 7 days a week to keep from going bankrupt.
It wasn’t too long ago that some Russian paid $88 million for a NYC penthouse for his daughter. Now that guy is certainly high income and if he is going to buy real estate in this country we should be able to tap his grossly inflated salary. We should also find the guy that just paid $100 million for another NYC penthouse.
There should be limits set on how much a company can pay to get top talent to take a company into the international market. After all, any one of us could do that job.
It is obscene how much money these rock stars make for holding a concert. But, if we limit their income, who do we give the surplus too? Maybe we can give more money to Pakistan so they will let our trucks go through their country unmolested. Well, there seems to be a limitless supply of illegal aliens that we can support and while we are at it we’ll cut the benefits on those troops in harms way. Well, yes we sent them over there to get shot at, but they did volunteer.
So, I’m with Obama and that poor person Hillary, lets pile on those rich guys. (We should also include those rich females that control over 51% of private wealth in this country.)
