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I have a new rule for America: Once your personal wealth reaches $1,000,000,000 you will be declared to have won the game.
There will be a parade held for you in your home town.
You'll get a brass plaque with your name on it placed on the Washington Mall
We'll mint platinum collector coins with your image and sell them on late-night TV
Apple Computer will feature you on a screensaver
There'll be a country and western song written in your honor
One of the Big 3 will produce a "Your Name Here" pickup truck
Wall Street will hang your picture in the New York Stock Exchange
Raytheon will name a drone after you
But from that point on, your earnings will be taxed at 100%. Since there's no "wealth tax", you can live a life of luxury off your billion, and see to the future of your children, grand-children, great-grand-children and great-great-grandchildren, but a billion is the limit.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)And oh yeah, ALL income, including capital gains, should be taxed the same. We don't have a problem with plutocrats not investing enough money.
Squinch
(50,672 posts)adirondacker
(2,921 posts)"Shit I got to unload this extra million. Quick send it to the homeless shelter before I end up there!"
riqster
(13,986 posts)Works for me. Now I just gotta sell enough songs to get that billion...
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,753 posts)antiquie
(4,299 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)I say, once you reach half of that you be forced into retirement. No further earnings allowed. Go relax somewhere.
You can receive mental healthcare for your money addiction.
rock
(13,218 posts)With only a billion, you wouldn't have enough to spend millions bribing politicians nor for that matter, reason to do so.
TBF
(31,892 posts)I would retire to an island somewhere.
geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)I don't think I can rec this one enough! You rule Scuba!
kairos12
(12,794 posts)with the title "1/10th of one percent."
Scuba
(53,475 posts)DirkGently
(12,151 posts)Excellent.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Everybody knows the first billion is the hardest. Once you've made that, the second billion comes a lot easier. Why should people have to put in all that hard work on the first billion without then being rewarded by an easy run to the second?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Yavin4
(35,310 posts)Some where in the world. Somebody will have $1,000,000,000.01, which makes them richer than the person with a measly $1,000,000,000.00
progressoid
(49,758 posts)1000words
(7,051 posts)Your ideas are intriguing, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Rec
whopis01
(3,463 posts)aikoaiko
(34,113 posts)Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)wealth that you own, except the billion itself, will go back to society, whose labor's fruits they ultimately always are.
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)But own some stock, all dividends go the gov't and things like that.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)Like douchebag or peckerhead.
How disappointing.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)... but freedom. We kind of value that. It would be a hard sell.
-Laelth
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Same thing.