Reply #20: My mom and I would spend Sunday pretending we

[Cleita]

were rich. We would dress up very nicely, go to brunch at the Beverly Hilton, then we would attend open houses in wealthy neighborhoods. Of course we had to park a way down the road or street so the realtors wouldn't see her Ford Falcon. You didn't have to have an appointment back then to see many of those mansions or posh apartments. Closets that were as large as my whole apartment weren't that unusual or bathrooms that could have made a Roman Emperor happy and this was back when the progressive tax rate was 90% for rich people. So I think increasing taxes for the rich instead of giving them tax breaks wouldn't affect their life style at all.