If we tax the rich and the corps until their eyes bleed, and if we use that money to create . . . .

[Stinky The Clown]

. . . . *public* wealth, it seems to me we can get things moving.

There are no job creators right now, contrary to popular opinion as written on cave walls. There are plenty of wealth hoarders, but no job creators.

There, make it policy to tax hoarded wealth beyond some reasonable level. Okay, call it a reverse transfer of wealth back to the people who actually did the heavy lifting to create it. Invest every bit of it into the country in the form of Things That Last.

Things That Last are bridges and high speed trains and community hospitals and schools and senior centers and bike lanes and efficient ports and improved waterways and fire houses with new fire trucks and extended municipal sewers to serve unserved areas.

Replace our failing infrastructure and crumbling public buildings. The money is there. Using the money this way would actually create more wealth. The money investors always tell you to keep your money working. THIS would keep the money working. True enough, Scrooge McDuck couldn't climb down his ladder into his CashAndGold bin, but the larger good woudl be served.

It is illegal to hoard cats. It is illegal to create unhealthy places by hoarding anything.

Hoarding money ought to be the same.

[Stinky The Clown]

1. Did this post?

DU just belched. Badly. Wow.

[Major Hogwash]

2. We should tax the electronic churches, too.

I would love to get ahold of some of that easy money that Joel Osteen gets down there in Texas.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. I'm good with that.

I'm okay with taxing all churches. I never understood why they got a subsidy for what it is they do.

[blindpig]

4. That's down right communists.

In fact, it is one of the first steps of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Salute.